Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

From April 24 onward, interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out.

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Fun fact: Copilot gives you no way to ignore sensitive files with API keys, passwords, DB credentials, etc.: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/11254#discussi...

So by default you send all this to Microsoft by opening your IDE.

Option for disabling Copilot in specific files · community · Discussion #11254

Hey, I'm seeking an option to disable the Copilot in specific files. I want to avoid disabling it for a whole language, just disable in e.g. some JSON-based configuration files (where credentials m...

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Sadly, this issue is systemic: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847