If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos • Hacker News Board

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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Post by x0x0 » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #97

martinwoodward wrote: post #43

No we won’t. Details here https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-gi... For users of Free, Pro and Pro+ Copilot, if you don’t opt out then we will start collecting usage data of Copilot for use in model training. If you are a subscriber for Business or Pro we do not train on usage. The blog post covers more details but we do not train on private repo data at rest, just interaction data with Copilot.…

In the EU, opt-out is not a legally valid way to obtain the necessary consent. How do you plan to handle this?

For personal data. I don't believe you can reasonably claim code is personal data any more than a hammer is your personal data.

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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Post by pokot0 » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

while I agree, I understood this is only when you use copilot? if not, their communication is very misleading

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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Post by uwagar » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

why all u programmers cant make ur own website and host ur own git servers?

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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Post by nitrogen99 » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

So? It’s not like some human is spying on your private emails or chats. This is just code. Relax.

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

lanxevo3 wrote: post #9

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Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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Post by ClikeX » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

lanxevo3 wrote: post #9

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The setting isn't even visible to everyone. If you're currently in an org that manages copilot business, it's gone. I imagine it instantly opts you back in when you leave an org.

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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Post by jongjong » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC

Wow. This is theft. Should be illegal! It's like if I own a vault storage business and I am keeping other people's gold in my vaults and then I just take all the gold for myself and claim that the customers should have opted out of me stealing their gold but they missed the deadline...

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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Post by anarticle » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC

martinwoodward wrote: post #43

No we won’t. Details here https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-gi... For users of Free, Pro and Pro+ Copilot, if you don’t opt out then we will start collecting usage data of Copilot for use in model training. If you are a subscriber for Business or Pro we do not train on usage. The blog post covers more details but we do not train on private repo data at rest, just interaction data with Copilot.…

tl;dr: installed gitlab.

I'm not bidding against you to not train on my data.

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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Post by VladVladikoff » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC

The most shocking part of this news to me is that they aren’t doing this already.

Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

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Post by shamelessdev » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 10:43 PM UTC

This is the exact reason I vibe coded “artifact”.

Not for commercial success, just wanted a git and github like experience for my new game project.

Then I started getting into features specific to game dev like moving away from LFS and properly diffing binaries.

paganartifact.com/benny/artifact

Mirror: GitHub bennyschmidt/artifact