Question

A privacy officer at a company using GitHub Copilot Business asks you to clarify what happens to the prompt data (surrounding code and context) that is sent to the model when a developer receives an inline code completion. Under the standard Copilot Business data handling model, how is this prompt data treated after a suggestion is generated?

Accepted Answer

The prompt is transmitted to generate the suggestion and then discarded; it is not retained or used to train the foundation models for Business customers.

Answer

The prompt is retained indefinitely and used to fine-tune the shared foundation model so future suggestions improve for all customers.

Answer

The prompt is stored locally on GitHub servers for 90 days and made available to organization admins for review in the audit log.

Answer

The prompt is never transmitted off the developer's machine; completions are produced entirely by a locally cached model.