How to stop GitHub training AI on your data
What the policy itself says, plan by plan. Where GitHub publishes the steps, they're here in its own words, read from an archived copy of the page that gives them. Where it doesn't, this page says so instead of inventing a menu path.
Individual accounts (all plans)
No opt-out is offered on Individual accounts (all plans). The quoted clause above is what we found. There's no setting, form or support route that overrides it.
"We use Personal Data to develop and improve our products, services, and technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. This includes improving features, developing new offerings, enhancing safety and security capabilities, and training models."
Organization-provided accounts (Enterprise/Business)
When a school or employer supplies your GitHub account, the privacy statement says that organization becomes the Data Controller and GitHub acts as a Data Processor under a Data Protection Agreement negotiated with that organization. The same paragraph adds a wrinkle: GitHub remains Data Controller "solely for specific processing activities" defined in that agreement, and "for those limited purposes, this Statement governs" — so part of org-account processing may fall under the very clause quoted on the Individual accounts tier, but the document never says whether AI/ML training is one of those "limited purposes" or one of the DPA-governed ones. We also checked GitHub's own publicly-linked standard Data Protection Agreement (the document this policy points readers to); it authorizes GitHub to provide, update, and troubleshoot the service and explicitly rules out using organization data for profiling, advertising, or data brokering, but it does not mention AI or machine learning model training in either direction — genuinely silent, not merely unread.
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