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It establishes that user-written code and chat inputs, together with surrounding context, are transmitted to an AI system, defining a high-severity data collection category that includes the substance of users' work.
Users' code inputs, chat inputs, and accompanying context are collected by GitHub and sent to Copilot's AI as part of the suggestion-generation process.
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"Prompts: These are inputs for chat or code, along with context, sent to Copilot's AI to generate suggestions.Excerpt from GitHub's Copilot Business Privacy Statement
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It establishes that user-written code and chat inputs, together with surrounding context, are transmitted to an AI system, defining a high-severity data collection category that includes the substance of users' work.
Users' code inputs, chat inputs, and accompanying context are collected by GitHub and sent to Copilot's AI as part of the suggestion-generation process.
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