GitHub Privacy Statement
docs.github.com
docs.github.com
"In some cases, we request that you provide age, gender, and similar demographic details."
"We collect any code, text, photographs, documents, or other files, including videos or recordings, you upload to our Service; and if you send us email messages or other communications, we collect and retain those communications. For example, you may choose to give us more information for your Account profile, such as your full name, an avatar which may include a photograph, your biography, your location, your company, and a URL to a third-party website."
"If you're accessing or using our Service, we may automatically collect information about how you use and how your device interacts with the Service, such as the pages you view, the referring site, your IP address and information about your device, session information, the date and time of each request, device type and ID, operation system and application version, information contained in or relating to your contributions to individual repositories, and telemetry data (i.e., information about how a specific feature or service is performing) regarding your use of other features and functionality of the Service."
"We infer new information from other data we collect, including using automated means to generate information about your likely preferences or other characteristics (“inferences”)."
Of course, it is the surveillance empire:
"Other companies with whom you choose to engage. GitHub may collect personal data about you from third parties."
"Co-branding/marketing partners. We may receive information from partners with which we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities."
"Personalization of our Service by understanding you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment using our Service."
"Personalize and measure the effectiveness of enterprise business ads, including those you see off of the Services, promotional communications or marketing you receive related to the Enterprise Marketing Pages."
"We share your personal data with service providers who process the information on our behalf to provide or improve our Service."
"We enable access to personal data across our subsidiaries, affiliates, and related companies, for example, where we share common data systems, when affiliates provide services on our behalf, or where access is needed to operate and provide the Service."
And it goes on and on and on.
I agree.
> Why is it particularly relevant?
Because it demonstrates---in the jargon of expensive lawyers---that GitHub is very much a part of the surveillance capitalism ecosystem. Personally, I never quite understood why so many FOSS/OSS communities consented.