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This internal letter was leaked last night on Twitter, via Fight for the Future. It seems putting it on the official GitHub blog is a response to that leak: https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1181745056698572802

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Putting it on the official GitHub blog seems to violate GitHub's Privacy Policy. As much as I support GitHub's approach to dealing with ICE (and as much as I despise ICE) I have a problem with a company making the details of a customer's private transaction public. It's the government, and the government should be open and transparent, so that makes it a little easier to swallow but I still don't feel it's appropriate for GitHub to comment on a specific customer's services/total contract value.

Privacy policies generally applies to individuals, not corporations. Unless there's an NDA in place that Github can't speak about a particular customer, nothing apart from good will is preventing them.

This is a common misconception but is absolutely not true. If the scope of privacy policies were limited to natural persons then any website collecting data from a corporation would have no legal basis for doing so.

But regardless, ICE was looking to renew a contract so there was an agreement already in place and I can virtually guarantee the terms include some flavor of mutual non-disclosure.

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