GitHub Copilot

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Applies to: Copilot Business, Copilot Enterprise (contrasted with Copilot Free, Pro, Pro+)

From the vendor product page FAQ / trust section (github.com/features/copilot): “No. GitHub does not use either Copilot Business or Enterprise data to train its models.” github.com ↗

Training and retention posture varies by plan. The default-plan row above describes the vendor’s free or standard tier; the paid-plan row is quoted from the document linked beside it. A negotiated contract can override either. Check your own agreement before relying on this.

On U.S. CLOUD Act reach specifically: the statute reaches a provider subject to U.S. jurisdiction over data in its possession, custody or control. Corporate control is a strong indicator of that and it is what we can evidence from published documents — but it is not the whole test. A company founded outside the U.S. can still contract through a U.S. entity or run substantial U.S. operations. Treat this as a starting point for your own review, not a legal determination, and take advice on anything that matters.

• 12 Oct 2026 · the record changed. Changed: the contracting entity. Why: we corrected our reading.
• 21 Sep 2026 · the record changed. Changed: what the answer depends on. Why: we corrected our reading.
• 16 Sep 2026 · the vendor’s document was read again; none of the fields this history tracks changed
• 13 Sep 2026 · the record changed. Changed: the US-control finding, what the answer depends on and the note beside the finding. Why: we corrected our reading.
• 8 Aug 2026 · first recorded: “Contracts with GitHub, Inc. (United States) — within reach of US legal process.”

This is the history of our record of this vendor: when we first recorded it; each time one of these changed: the determination sentence, the contracting entity, its country, the governing law, the US-control finding, what the answer depends on, the note beside the finding, or the cited document; and each time the vendor's document was read again and none of them changed. A change only in capitals, punctuation or spacing is not a line, and neither is a first document title. A line names what changed and does not repeat what those fields said before; the determination above says what they say now. Where the determination sentence itself changed, the line shows the earlier sentence too, marked as before, with why it changed. The automated re-check's latest result is not a line here; it is printed beside the clause above. A change here may be the vendor changing its document or us correcting our reading of it, and a line says which only where the record shows it; otherwise it says the cause is not established. Each line is today's reading of the record as it stood on that date. A reading we later found its citation does not carry was withdrawn, and is not repeated here. This history as data.

The vendor's published or catalog-recorded posture — the concrete facts this entry is built from. A full audit verifies each against the vendor's current documentation.

GitHub Copilot: “Contracts with GitHub, Inc. (United States) — within reach of US legal process.”
Vannus, https://vannus.co/tool/github-copilot
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