Source audio editor audacity become spyware

Audacity's new Privacy Policy, Section 7 However, we are occasionally required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA.'

'All your personal data is stored on our servers in the European Economic Area (EEA). The most secure and definitely not-at-all sketchy epicentre of shonky Internet practicesР’В in any way! Oh and the best part: They're sending your data to their headquarters in fucking Russia of all places. It also allows MuseGroup and its associates to take note of your computer build, your OS, your IP address, your country location andР’В sell your data to the highest bidder much like what Facebook and similar apps and sites do. In the latest version of Audacity, they've switched up their Privacy Policy to include spying on your hardware for the purposes of 'Law Enforcement' and don't tell you anything much more specific than that. Thanks to this news, my concerns were validated: the plucky little 20 year old program that has been a long-time stalwart of open-source softwareР’В that I myself have been using for over a decade has become what I had originally feared: A corporate product that wants to treat you as the product by sucking up your user data. When I originally heard that news, I was very worried that the program wouldn't be the same. To elaborate, a while back the development team were bought out by some company called MuseGroup. I have some disappointing news for all audiophiles and other similar long-time users: The long time and much respected open-source audio editing program, Audacity, has more or less turned itself into spyware.

Source audio editor audacity become spyware