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Sign upRequest for disclaimer about private/sensitive info #49
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I second this -- an opt-out option will be great for many users. |
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An opt-out exists in the repository settings. My wish is that it is made more prominent. |
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This is a great project and I can understand its significance. However, I would like to point out that several people may (unknowingly) have private and/or sensitive info recorded in their repositories which may be archived. While this information is likely publicly accessible and may have been scraped by others, it would still serve a user well to be able to delete said info when they so choose. Now that this information may be archived, users may suddenly want to double check and/or opt-out.
Of course, GitHub's Privacy Policy clearly notes that:
but it is very likely that people have not read the Privacy Policy and it would thus be helpful to add a small disclaimer that sensitive information may be present in a user's repository and they may want to review it. Again, I understand that this is the user's responsibility and they should have dealt with it in the first place, but a small nudge in the right direction would be immensely helpful.