Am Montag, 5. Juli 2021, 06:06:51 CEST schrieb Simon Lees:
On 7/5/21 7:27 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 04/07/2021 23.27, Mathias Homann wrote:
The audacity audio editor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor)
«In July 2021, Audacity updated its privacy policy to include a clause that allowed Muse Group to collect "data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests".[14] The change was met with controversy.[15][16]»
14 "Desktop Privacy Notice". Audacity ®. Retrieved July 4, 2021. 15 "Audacity may collect "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation" and more | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved July 4, 2021. 16 "Audacity may collect "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities' requests (if any)" according to new privacy notice". reddit. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
Or as Neal suggested because it is open source nothing stops us from continuing to ship a version with that "feature" patched out.
Cheers
but that "patched out" version would not send a clear, strong "f*ck you" to the people behind such violation of privacy laws. In fact, without being a lawyer, I'm actually wondering if the unpatched, original version would even be legal. Definitely not in the EU. Cheers MH -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann@openSUSE.org Jabber (XMPP): lemmy@tuxonline.tech IRC: [Lemmy] on freenode and ircnet (bouncer active) telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98 keybase: https://keybase.io/lemmy gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102