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[Bowdon]

[banger]

That's me not updating it. I thought Muse had backed down from telemetrics. Maybe not.

[Alex Atkin UK]

The ....?  Especially that second paragraph.

[Bowdon]

I was just reading the site story that one linked to and the bit about law enforcement, litigation and authorities bit is explained in a graph.

It says legal grounds for processing; Legitimate interest of WSM to defend its legal rights and interests.

https://fosspost.org/audacity-is-now-a-spyware/

So does this mean if someone uses certain music and are mixing it via audacity, that the program will just hand over all the data to the music company?

[burakkucat]

Surely no data can be transferred if Audacity is used on a system that is not connected to the Internet? Or am I misunderstanding something? 

[banger]

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/06/audacity_fork/

There's a new fork with all the badness removed. Just needs a name.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Surely no data can be transferred if Audacity is used on a system that is not connected to the Internet? Or am I misunderstanding something? 

No data should ever leave your PC anyway, Audacity AFAIK is a purely offline application, thus why its so baffling they are doing this.

[Chrysalis]

Data collection is a huge market, whats effectively happened is the program got purchased just for the intention of harvesting data.

[Alex Atkin UK]

But what sort of data is a program like Audacity going to even give?

[roseway]

Breaches of copyright by the user?

[broadstairs]

Because Audacity is open source openSUSE have been disabling these features in Audacity which is available on their repositories!

Stuart

[Bowdon]

I found the site I mentioned earlier; http://www.oldversion.com

Audacity is on there.

[Chrysalis]

I will just be keeping the older version I have, I have no reason to update it, and its things like this which make me disable any auto update features.

[snadge]

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/06/audacity_fork/

There's a new fork with all the badness removed. Just needs a name.

cheers buddy

[Alex Atkin UK]

I'm still failing to understand how anything you use Audacity for could be needed for law enforcement.