About GitHub Copilot telemetry

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2021-07-06 18:30:18

The GitHub Copilot collects activity from the user’s Visual Studio Code editor, tied to a timestamp, and metadata. This metadata consists of the extension settings and the standard metadata collected by the Visual Studio Code extension telemetry package:

We know user edit actions and source code snippets are very sensitive data, and access is strictly controlled. The data can only be accessed by (1) named GitHub personnel (employees and contractors) working on the GitHub Copilot team or on the GitHub platform health team, (2) select Microsoft personnel (employees and contractors) working on or with the GitHub Copilot team, and (3) select employees of OpenAI who work on GitHub Copilot.

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