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And Musescore have the right to Not be smeared for what they have not yet done nor even exactly stated they plan to do - Concerns and distrust are fair to express, and even a reminder of any history they have, but not misleading people that they already put a kind of malware into Audacity. People have the right to decide whether they want to trust or not Musescore or the future direction of the software. Audacity don't meet the definition (yet).

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using the word for a program is making an accusation that it's software designed to run in the background and covertly collect information about users' computer activities such as web browsing history, etc. It's fine to have concerns, but they should be stated honestly Not by people lying about the issue claiming that there is a current danger which there is not / that people should uninstall Audacity to avoid immediate harm to them and their computers. The current version is not spyware yet, but why would you give the benefit of the doubt that it will stay like that muse? Putting that info in the privacy policy is just important to avoid being sued or penalized by regulatory enforcement authorities for not complying By failing to disclose. The fact is that even if the devs did not add the information to 'Law enforcement' - They would still be legally required to comply with law enforcement requests.

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Perhaps whoever brought up this label were being too lazy and did not want to review the code or look for actual evidence, OR they are just stating that they anticipate the developer will make future versions into Spyware - In either case, it would appear to constitute reckless publication at best and malicious / libelous conduct at worst for journalists to label them Spyware. Someone clearly just overreacted to legal CYA the developers added to their privacy policy documents by coming up with some bullshit that Audacity are currently Spyware. If the above fits your definition of Spyware, then Windows itself, and even the stock Notepad.exe can be considered Spyware. (So if you compile the current repository from source yourself, and possibly if you use an OS other than Windows, then you will not even have that feature). The current versions are apparently not Spyware either they just potentially send back to the developers some very basic info in crash reports In the event of a program crash using a sentry.io API with an API URL and credentials that are chosen when compiling the binary.

UPDATE: Ars Technica's Jim Salter disagrees, pointing out that 'neither the privacy policy nor the in-app telemetry in question are actually in effect yet,' and that the company now plans to self-host its telemetry sessions rather than using third-party libraries and hosting. The data collected includes OS version and name, user country based on IP address, the CPU being used, data related to Audacity error codes and crash reports, and finally 'Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities' requests (if any).' The personal data collected can be shared with Muse Group employees, auditors, advisors, legal representatives and 'similar agents,' potential company buyers, and 'any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, or (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights.'

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On April 30, the Muse Group acquired Audacity with the promise that the software would 'remain forever free and open source.' However, as FOSS Post reports, last week the Audacity privacy policy page was updated and introduced a number of personal data collection clauses. From a report: Audacity has been around for over 21 years and classes as the world's most popular audio editing software.

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Anyone deciding to download the free and open-source audio editor Audacity is being warned that the software may now be classified as spyware due to recent updates to its privacy policy.

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