Background

GitHub’s Guidelines for Legal Requests of User Data explain how we handle legally authorized requests, including law enforcement requests, subpoenas, court orders, and search warrants, as well as national security letters and orders.

In short, we follow the law while requiring adherence to the highest legal standards for user requests for data. We carefully review all requests to disclose user data to ensure they adhere to our policies and satisfy all appropriate legal requirements, and we push back where they do not. When we do disclose information, we never share private content data, except in response to a search warrant, and we notify users when we disclose their information in response to a legal request, unless a law or court order prevents us from doing so.