Under the new privacy policy, Audacity will collect information such as OS version, CPU and error codes, but also the location of the user. According to the policy, this information is required for analytics purposes and to improve the application, although it’s unclear where location data slots into this picture.The policy goes on to state that Audacity will collect “data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests”, but does not expand on what type of information this clause might cover, leading to speculation it could be used to justify an unacceptable breach of user privacy.
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?
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/06/audacity_fork/There's a new fork with all the badness removed. Just needs a name.