Software engineers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for violating personal privacy (Copilot training)
Date: 2022-11
Affected: Open-source developers
Attack vector: data-exfiltration
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

A class action filed against OpenAI, Microsoft and GitHub alleged that the Copilot coding assistant was trained on public GitHub repositories without permission and reproduced license-bound code, treating training without consent as a privacy and DMCA violation.


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