  Social Coding Platforms (SCPs) like GitHub have become central to modern
software engineering thanks to their collaborative and version-control
features. Like in mainstream Online Social Networks (OSNs) such as Facebook,
users of SCPs are subjected to privacy attacks and threats given the high
amounts of personal and project-related data available in their profiles and
software repositories. However, unlike in OSNs, the privacy concerns and
practices of SCP users have not been extensively explored nor documented in the
current literature. In this work, we present the preliminary results of an
online survey (N=105) addressing developers' concerns and perceptions about
privacy threats steaming from SCPs. Our results suggest that, although users
express concern about social and organisational privacy threats, they often
feel safe sharing personal and project-related information on these platforms.
Moreover, attacks targeting the inference of sensitive attributes are
considered more likely than those seeking to re-identify source-code
contributors. Based on these findings, we propose a set of recommendations for
future investigations addressing privacy and identity management in SCPs.
