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Huggingface have scraped the entirety of Github. (huggingface.co)
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Would be a terrible shame if lots of people opted out.

If you are a EU citizen you might also want to write a complaint to privacy@huggingface.co because they are collecting your personally identifiable information in machine-readable form which they are distributing to third parties.

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[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not, but it may be violation of licenses. And also, if it has personal information on it, that's probably illegal under the GDPR.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago

but it may be violation of licenses

They excluded code with non-permissive licenses apparently:

Each file is labelled permissive (at least one permissive license detected, no conflicting non-permissive license), no_license (no licenses detected, or only non-license legal texts such as CLAs), or non_permissive. The permissive allowlist follows the Blue Oak Council list plus licenses categorized as Permissive or Public Domain by ScanCode. Files classified as non_permissive are excluded from both released datasets.

also, if it has personal information on it, that’s probably illegal under the GDPR.

It's all public so I would be extremely surprised if that were the case.