According to a survey of adults in the United Kingdom who had contacted organizations regarding their privacy rights in October 2023, around a quarter of respondents contacted subscription services. Social media companies ranked second, with almost 20 percent of the respondents communicating their privacy rights with them, while e-commerce websites followed with 18 percent.

According to a survey of adults in the United Kingdom (UK) from January to February 2024, around seven in ten respondents asked an organization to stop sending them marketing communication through electronic means. Furthermore, over 30 percent refused to provide an organization with biometric data.

Comprehensive dataset outlining Advatec’s privacy policy, including data collection practices, user rights, GDPR compliance, and third-party data handling procedures.

Dataset on commits (and repositories) on GitHub making reference to data privacy legislation (covering laws: GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, UK DPA).

The dataset contains:
+ all_commits_info_merged-v2-SHA.csv : commits information as collected from various GitHub REST API calls (all data merged together).
+ repos_info_merged_USED-v2_with_loc.csv: repository information with some calculated data.
+ top-70-repos-commits-for-manual-check_commits-2coders.xlsx: results of the manual coding of the commits of the 70 most popular repositories in dataset.
+ user-rights-ω3.csv: different terms for user rights teriminology in legislation.
+ github_commits_analysis_replication.r: main analysis pipeline covering all RQs in the R programming language.

In order to perform also the initial data collection, the GitHub REST API can be used, collecting data using time intervals, for instance:
https://api.github.com/search/commits?q=%22GDPR%22+committer-date:2018-05-25..2018-05-30&sort=committer-date&order=asc&per_page=100&page=1

This dataset accompanies the following publication, so please cite it accordingly:

Georgia M. Kapitsaki, Maria Papoutsoglou, Evolution of repositories and privacy laws: commit activities in the GDPR and CCPA era, accepted for publication at Elsevier Journal of Systems & Software, 2025.