Inference & Profiling · Company practice
GitHub infers likely preferences or characteristics from your data, for example your location from your IP address
"Inference": GitHub generates new information from other data it collects to derive likely preferences or other characteristics. The example given is inferring your general geographic location from your IP address. The word "for instance" shows this is one example, not a full list of inferences.
Details
- What it does
- derive likely preferences or other characteristics from collected data
- What it covers
- general geographic location from IP address (example)
Supporting quotations
Inference: We generate new information from other data we collect to derive likely preferences or other characteristics. For instance, we infer your general geographic location based on your IP address.
Qualifications & exceptions
- The IP-address location inference is an example only.
Not stated here
- The source does not list the other characteristics GitHub infers.