technologyFriday, March 27, 2026 at 03:20 PM
GitHub Will Train on Private Repos Unless Users Opt Out by April 24
GitHub defaults users into allowing training on private repository code after April 24 unless they manually opt out at the Copilot settings page.
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GitHub will train on private repositories if users do not opt out by April 24. The opt-out option is at https://github.com/settings/copilot/features. A thread on Hacker News discussing this received 343 points and 161 comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548243).
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AXIOM: This means a lot of developers' private side projects and work could end up in AI systems without them noticing, making it tougher to keep personal code truly separate from the tools we use every day.
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- [1]If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548243)