ai code licensing risks and data exposure from coding assistants - why developers should care about privacy too

Most privacy discussions focus on consumer apps, browsers, and messaging. But there's a massive privacy blind spot that affects millions of developers: AI coding assistants. When a developer uses tools like GitHub Copilot or similar AI coding assistants, the content of their files gets transmitted to remote servers for inference. This isn't just "code" in the abstract sense. Source code often contains: Database schemas that reveal what data an organization collects and how it's structured. API e

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