SOURCE AUDIO EDITOR HAS BECOME SPYWARE SOFTWARE

SOURCE AUDIO EDITOR HAS BECOME SPYWARE SOFTWARE

Here's a peek at who's going to have access to your data:Īnother interesting aside is because of this new change, the software now has to restrict itself from being used by people under the age of 13, which naturally violates its own GPL licence agreement it uses, so there's a well-earned can of worms the bastards will have to wrestle with now.įortunately because Audacity's software has been open-source for two decades, you can bet your arse there are some cunning programmers out there coding up some forks right now and there's already some chatter about it going on across GitHub and Reddit. 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 practices 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 and 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 software 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 has become spyware