Atlassian, the powerhouse behind Jira and Confluence, just flipped a switch on its data policy. Starting August 17, 2026, the company will scoop up customer metadata and in-app content from its cloud products to train AI features like Rovo and Rovo Dev. This shift marks a sharp turn from earlier promises. No more vows against using customer data for model training. Now, it’s fair game—for most users, anyway. The rollout creeps in early. Settings appear in Atlassian Administration from April 16, 2026, giving admins until May 19 to tweak before defaults lock in. Affected tools? Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, plus platform apps such as Rovo, Home, and Analytics. That’s the daily grind of roughly 300,000 organizations worldwide. Break it down: two data buckets. Metadata captures signals like readability scores on Confluence pages, task classifications in Jira, semantic similarity between documents, story points, sprint end dates, and SLA metrics.…