[johndough]

Code often contains personal data. Here are over 400 files on GitHub with email addresses:

https://grep.app/search?regexp=true&q=%5Ba-z%5D%7B8%2C%7D%5C...

For example, license files often contain names and many package managers require a contact person.

When this goes to court, GitHub will probably make the excuse that they somehow did not know that people upload personal data, but the fact that this happens so often that they had to make a secret scanner to stop people from uploading their private keys will prove them as liars.