GitHub Transparency Report

We’re sharing recent policy updates that developers should know about, updating our Transparency Center with the full year of 2025 data, and looking to what’s ahead.

Why the U.S. Supreme Court case Cox v. Sony matters for developers and sharing updates to our Transparency Center and Acceptable Use Policies.

We share the full year 2024 data update on our Transparency Center and highlight how developers can engage with us on our site policies and content moderation.

Sharing the latest data update to our Transparency Center alongside a new research article on what makes moderating a code collaboration platform unique.

Our full year of 2023 transparency reporting data is now available and we’re taking a deep dive into how a form change caused an abrupt increase in circumvention claims.

It’s time for our biannual transparency report, where we share how we approach content moderation and disclosure of user information. This year, we’re introducing the transparency center, a new platform for our transparency reporting data.

Looking back over a year’s worth of developer-first content moderation and, new in this report, making our data more accessible to researchers.

We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve continued with the more granular reporting we began in our 2021 reports.

In GitHub’s latest transparency report, we’re giving you a by-the-numbers look at how we responded to requests for user info and content removal.

We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats.

At GitHub, we put developers first, and we work hard to provide a safe, open, and inclusive platform for code collaboration. This means we are committed to minimizing the disruption…

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.

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.

A summary of content removals and and user information disclosures in 2017

GitHub’s annual transparency report, 2016 edition