[GTALUG] [ Audacity Becomes Spyware (fwd)

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2021-07-06 8:10 a.m., Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> Their new terms and conditions includes:
> 
> * collection of usage data (including OS version, user country (based on
> IP address; it's not clear if they retain IP address), CPU, non-fatal
> error codes, crash reports and data necessary for law enforcement,
> litigation and authorities’ requests) stored and processed in Russia;
> 
> * no use by those under 13 (since presumably the above data collection
> has no way to opt out, so can't be in compliance with any minor
> protection laws)

Wow. An Open Source project and they are putting an age restriction on it? 
It seems likely they won't be in compliance with the GDPR. I wonder what 
they would do if someone asked them to delete all their data.

It seems very likely Audacity will be forked (if it wasn't already). I seem 
to think I had heard of a fork of it being made.

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