Copilot Data Safety Revisited Again

[HanzhangRen]

This is a follow-up on a closed post, which itself follows up on another closed post.

The following was established in the earlier post:

@tom_rstudio

we do our best to avoid sending known sensitive data. The Copilot feature targets source files, and we exclude common environment files (ie .Renviron) and do not attempt to index data files.

Does this mean that unless I type information from a dataset into my R code (or something like a Quarto notebook file), RStudio will not upload any information from the dataset to GitHub Copilot, either directly or indirectly?

Could someone confirm that Copilot does not upload information from 1) data files (e.g. .RDS, .csv, .dta) 2) data objects loaded in the global environment, and 3) datasets opened in a RStudio tab via View()?

It would be really helpful if this could be officially documented.

Thank you!