For anyone not yet aware the official privacy policy was updated on the 2nd of July and contains some very disturbing things, most notably under data collection is "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)", I want to ask what exactly does this mean ? this is completely vague and tells us nothing about what is actually being collected.
As far as I'm concerned any data collection is unacceptable unless what is collected is exactly stated and opt-out is provided, for an open source project this is doubly so, I urge all users to remove Audacity from their system until this is resolved, in addition if you're a Linux user I would contact the package maintainer for your distribution as such a license may not be permitted.
For anyone not yet aware the official privacy policy was updated on the 2nd of July and contains some very disturbing things, most notably under data collection is "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)", I want to ask what exactly does this mean ? this is completely vague and tells us nothing about what is actually being collected.
As far as I'm concerned any data collection is unacceptable unless what is collected is exactly stated and opt-out is provided, for an open source project this is doubly so, I urge all users to remove Audacity from their system until this is resolved, in addition if you're a Linux user I would contact the package maintainer for your distribution as such a license may not be permitted.