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This provision clarifies the data governance structure within organizational deployments, allocating responsibility and control authority between GitHub and the organization, which affects compliance obligations and data handling authority within the enterprise context.
The updated terms now explicitly authorize GitHub to collect AI outputs generated within the platform alongside user-provided code and content, and to share personal data with Microsoft and other GitHub affiliates for purposes including training and improving artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The privacy statement indicates that aggregate and de-identified data will be used where feasible, but the updated language establishes broader authority for affiliate data sharing and AI model development than the previous version stated. The revised terms also remove specific disclosure of the conditions under which GitHub personnel may access private repositories, replacing that detail with a cross-reference to the Terms of Service, which means the scope of internal GitHub access to private repositories is now defined in a separate contract document rather than the privacy statement itself.
View change record →Under this clause, members of organization or enterprise accounts are subject to data access and processing by their organization's administrator, as the organization retains data controller status and authority over member personal data while GitHub processes that data according to the organization's instructions.
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"If you use GitHub as part of an organization or enterprise account, your organization's administrator may have access to your personal data. GitHub processes personal data on behalf of the organization in its capacity as a data processor, and the organization is the data controller responsible for the personal data of its members.— Excerpt from GitHub's GitHub Privacy Statement
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This provision clarifies the data governance structure within organizational deployments, allocating responsibility and control authority between GitHub and the organization, which affects compliance obligations and data handling authority within the enterprise context.
Under this clause, members of organization or enterprise accounts are subject to data access and processing by their organization's administrator, as the organization retains data controller status and authority over member personal data while GitHub processes that data according to the organization's instructions.
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