DSP-Quattro is a highly innovative product that utilizes the latest technological advances of computer-based audio editing. That’s how sure they are you won’t actually read the Privacy Policy.DSP-Quattro is an extremely powerful Audio Editor/AudioCD Mastering Application with extended real-time and off-line support of AU/VST plug-ins for MacOS X. They didn’t learn anything, clearly, and they kept the bad language. “The lesson to communications here – and Muse are far from the first developer to discover this – is that you might want to release the explanation at the same time if not before the confusing and potentially incendiary legalese your lawyers came up with.” Now let’s go back to the article for a moment: to any other person if you have provided your prior consent to the disclosure.”. to a potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your Personal Data only for the purposes disclosed in this Notice.“Who does Audacity share your Personal Data with? “Audacity also say in the clarification regarding user data: “We do not and will not sell ANY data we collect or share it with 3rd parties. Update: Muse Groups’s plans appear to be evolving – a May 17 Tech Radar article says that the company reversed their initial plans for data collection, but their Privacy Policy, containing the issues people are concerned about, is dated July 2. You can follow the discussions at Github and Reddit. Open-source applications can be ‘forked’, which means that anyone can take the Audacity code and create a new version of the app, as long as they abide by the source’s licensing. But users on Github and Reddit argue that the changes are not only unnecessary and unwelcome, but violate Audacity’s GPL licensing, which states that “The act of running the Program is not restricted.”Īs a result of Muse Group’s changes, some are calling for Audacity to be ‘forked’. It appears that Muse Group may have updated the privacy policy to be consistent with its other products. You can read details of the new policy on the Audacity site. The app is also now ‘rated PG-13’, as the privacy policy states that Audacity should not be used by people below the age of 13. If you want to stay away from such things, then stay away from Audacity.īy doing these suspicious activities, the people behind Audacity and Muse Group have shown their selves to be unworthy of the trust of the open source community, and hence, the software should be abandoned and disposed from Linux distributions’ repositories.” One would not expect an offline desktop application to be collecting such data, phoning-home and then handing that data to governments around the world whenever they see fit. However, we are occasionally required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA. It states for example that it can hand any user data to state regulators where it is located – which is basically Russia, USA and the EEA zone.Īll your personal data is stored on our servers in the European Economic Area (EEA). “The updated privacy policy page (which was uploaded 2 days ago) for Audacity includes a wide range of data collection mechanisms. According to Foss Post’s report, “While Audacity is nothing more than a desktop program, its developers want to make it phone home with various data taken from users’ machines.” They recommend uninstalling the application ASAP.Īudacity was acquired by a company named Muse Group two months ago. FOSS Post, an independent news site that covers open source software, reports that the popular open source audio software Audacity may now be spyware.
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