Policy

November 3 is election day in the U.S. Early voting is available in most states. If you haven’t yet, make a plan to vote. If you’re an employer in the…

We regularly update our policies to reflect the evolution of our products, changing legal requirements, and user feedback. In this update, we’ve made some changes to our Terms of Service,…

This article originally appeared in TechCrunch, and is republished here with permission. The Supreme Court heard arguments October 7 in Google v. Oracle. This case raises a fundamental question for…

As policymakers grapple with how to address hate speech and disinformation on the internet, they’re eying the legal structure underpinning collaborative software development: legal safe harbors. These safe harbors protect…

This post is the second in a series on access and the U.S. elections. Hear from Software Engineer and GitHub Senior Director of Strategic Programs, Kyle Daigle, on his experience volunteering at his local election office.

Register, vote, and volunteer to make an impact during the U.S. 2020 elections.

Last week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled the EU-US Privacy Shield, a mechanism governing personal data transfers from the EU to the US, is invalid due to concerns…

Last week, GitHub joined over 500 organizations signing a letter to the U.S. Congress seeking continued support for the Open Technology Fund (OTF) and its mission of funding open source…

We’re excited to share GitHub’s 2019 Transparency Report, a by-the-numbers look at how we handle requests for user data and moderate content on GitHub.

California’s new privacy law comes into effect this January. Learn how you can prepare (tl;dr—don’t sell personal information) and contribute to the rules.

Sanctions impact both developers and the global open source community. Read more about how US trade sanctions affect GitHub—and how we’re advocating for as much access to code and collaboration as possible.

Find out what we shared at the US Copyright Office based on our experience with the EU Copyright Directive.

The EU Copyright Directive has come down to a final vote. Read on for more on what’s at stake and how the developer community shaped the debate.

In our latest policy predictions for 2019, we explore five trends that might profoundly affect the environment in which developers build and ship software for years to come.

We’re excited to share GitHub’s 2018 Transparency Report, a by-the-numbers look at how we handle requests for user data and moderate content on GitHub.