Copilot account question
Hey y'all ! Anyone using copilot? Planning to buy one for my Work Account. (personal expense)
But I don't wanna buy another subscription for my personal account. Since I pay for it, is there way I can share them?
Or at least, maybe use the same Work Account on my PC, then change to my personal account when I have to make commits and hopefully not worry about my company finding out I'm using my Work account outside of work.
More or less my company's probably okay with it but I just don't wanna leave any unnecessary footprint (If copilot does any). 
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I always use my personal GitHub account at work. If they want to boot me off repos when I leave then they have the ability to do that. I get to keep my comit history for public repos.
I think its possible to have a Vs code extension signed into one account and your separate command line tool using another.
The contention is that co pilot on an enterprise GitHub licence doesn't send any code snippets outside of your org and I think co pilot personnel does. If the org has an infosec department they might lose their shit about that.
Thanks for the response @Develliot! I have a different work account and we're supposed to only use that whole at work. I kinda wanna use the Copilot extension outside work on the same account. I just dont wanna leave any footprint behind if copilot sends any other data (besides code snippets for training) to GitHub outside of my knowledge.
By VScode extension you mean only copilot right? I still actually use extensions like Gitlens, Git Graph, and GitHub Pull Requests. Not sure if they'll interact nicely with two accounts logged into the same IDE if that's even possible.
I can see how the CLI would run a separate account though, since the auth is just living in the global config or an ssh key.
As far as infosec goes, we have none. Also got a 👍 Go sign from the the higher ups use the $10 license since our code snippets doesn't really necessarily have any sensitive info to gatekeep. Also because 20 bucks is expensive per developer to be provided. We're on a budget. Also because the $10 for copilot is a personal expense.
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On that note, I'm also curious, what else is Copilot using the code snippets data for? Just for training? Or are they also putting those somewhere public?
To me, AI training on our code is like a person looking at someone else's stackoverflow solutions. As long as they generate a piece of code that's not completely identical as my code that's okay. It's not like most projects do anything completely unique, sometimes it's just the same solutions on a different domain.
Cool that they have a dedicated site for this lol:
https://resources.github.com/copilot-trust-center/
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GitHub Copilot Trust Center
We enable developers and organizations to maximize their potential by prioritizing security, privacy, compliance, and transparency as we develop and iterate on GitHub Copilot.