I feel like there is an even more important crisis that is being masked over here:
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-25-updates-to-our-priv...
New Section J — AI features, training, and your data: We’ve added a dedicated section that brings all AI-related terms together in one place. Unless you opt out, you grant GitHub and our affiliates a license to collect and use your inputs (e.g., prompts and code context) and outputs (e.g., suggestions) to develop, train, and improve AI models.
We should not be using Copilot in the first place.Looks like you can disable it though:
https://github.com/settings/copilot/features
-> Privacy -> "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training"
OpenAI/ChatGPT/Codex, Anthropic/Claude and Google/Gemini all do this.