[HN Gopher] No, open source Audacity audio editor is not "spyware"
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       No, open source Audacity audio editor is not "spyware"
        
       Author : AdmiralAsshat
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2021-07-06 18:32 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | berenza wrote:
       | see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27739596
       | [Audacity: Clarification of Privacy Policy]
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27741910 [Audacity fork
       | without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting]
        
       | randombits0 wrote:
       | Why is the default "we're going to collect data from you."? Opt-
       | in or no-go. Don't assume I'm ok with it.
        
       | jolmg wrote:
       | > This leaves the last row--"data necessary for law enforcement,
       | litigation and authorities' requests (if any)." While that's
       | certainly a broad category and not particularly well-defined,
       | it's also a fact of life in 2021.
       | 
       | On web services, which don't have access to your whole machine.
       | Also perhaps in closed-source software, which many FOSS users use
       | nothing of.
       | 
       | FOSS doing the same is pretty far from fact of life in 2021.
        
         | colejohnson66 wrote:
         | It's standard legal boilerplate to say "if we do get a request
         | in the form of a warrant, we will follow the law and comply."
         | Despite the common reading, it does _not_ mean "we collect data
         | we can hand over to law enforcement."
        
           | jolmg wrote:
           | > it does not mean "we collect data we can hand over to law
           | enforcement."
           | 
           | That's exactly what it says. The part of the privacy policy
           | in discussion is about _what_ they collect, not what they do
           | with data they collect for other reasons.
           | 
           | That's very different from the standard boilerplate,
           | specially for a locally running program.
        
           | SahAssar wrote:
           | A local application does not need that boilerplate, right? If
           | the app does not have a server-side component why put it in
           | there?
        
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