GitHub published a report on blocking in 2019

GitHub ΠΎΠΏΡƒΠ±Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ²Π°Π» an annual report that reflects notifications of intellectual property infringement and the publication of illegal content received in 2019. In accordance with the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), in 2019, GitHub received 1762 requirements about blocking and 37 denials from the owners of the repositories.
For comparison, in 2018 there were 1799 blocking requests, in 2017 - 1380, in 2016 - 757, in 2015 - 505, and in 2014 - 258.

GitHub published a report on blocking in 2019

Received from government agencies 16 requirements removal of content, of which 8 were obtained from of Russia, 6 from China and 2 from Spain (last year there were 9 requests, all of them from Russia).
Requests covered 67 projects associated with 61 repositories. In addition, one request was received from France related to the blocking of 5 projects due to violation of local legislation to prevent phishing.

As for blocking at the request of the Russian Federation, they were all sent Roskomnadzor and are associated with the publication of instructions for suicide, the promotion of religious sects and fraudulent activities (fictitious investment fund). One request was related to the blocking of an online anonymizer thesnipergodproxy. This year already received 6 requests for blocking from Roskomnadzor, 4 of which are related to the blocking of a comic suicide instruction, and two requests have not yet disclosed data on repositories.

GitHub also received 218 requests to disclose user data, nearly three times the number in 2018. 109 such requests were sent in the form of subpoenas (100 criminal cases and 9 civil cases), 92 court orders and 30 search warrants. 95.9% of requests were sent by law enforcement, and 4.1% by civil lawsuits. 165 out of 218 requests were granted, resulting in the disclosure of information on 1250 accounts.
Users were notified of the disclosure of their data only 6 times, as the remaining 159 requests were accompanied by a non-disclosure order (gag order).

GitHub published a report on blocking in 2019

A certain number of requests also came from US intelligence agencies as part of law on covert surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes, but the exact number of requests in this category is not subject to disclosure, it is only reported that there are less than 250 such requests.

Source: opennet.ru

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