Privacy Statement Updates September 2022 #582
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Updates to privacy statement
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| | [Who is responsible for the processing of your information](#who-is-responsible-for-the-processing-of-your-information) | Subject to limited exceptions, GitHub is the controller and entity responsible for the processing of your Personal Data in connection with the Website or Service. | | |||
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Is the change from "Personal Data" to "personal data" a stylistic change?
I note that the paragraph above is still intact:
All capitalized terms have their definition in GitHub’s Terms of Service, unless otherwise noted here.
Presuming this capitalization change is unintentional, it has the unfortunate effect of decoupling "Personal Data" from the definition provided in the GitHub Terms of Service, which means that "personal data" is no longer as delineated there, but could well be anything.
If this is an intentional change, it would seem better made as a visible change to the Terms of Service. If the intent is not to change the Terms of Service but to arbitrarily expand "personal data" without drawing attention, well, that seems evil.
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Looking into this further -- it looks like "Personal Data" is defined these days in the GitHub Data Protection Agreement. Perhaps this was being decapitalized since it is not directly defined (afaict) in the GitHub Terms of Service?
GitHub is introducing non-essential cookies on web pages that market our products to businesses. These cookies will provide analytics to improve the site experience and personalize content and ads for enterprise users.
This change updates the Privacy Statement based on this new activity.
These updates will go into effect after the 30-day notice and comment period, on September 1, 2022.