β² 1640 βΌ Maybe they just don't know any better (thelemmy.club) submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 234 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[β] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 101 points 6 months ago (1 child) The Audacity! permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] definitely_AI@feddit.online 18 points 6 months ago (1 child) Will they get away with it? Vee'll see. I'll go home now, HEY DON'T PUSH ME permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] rtxn@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (1 child) They did not, in fact, get away with it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] definitely_AI@feddit.online 30 points 6 months ago (1 child) In May 2021, after the project was acquired by Muse Group,[58] there was a draft proposal to add opt-in telemetry to the code to record application usage. Some users responded negatively, with accusations of turning Audacity into spyware.[59] The company reversed course, falling back to error/crash reporting and optional update checking instead.[60] Another controversy in July 2021[61] resulted from a change to the privacy policy which said that although personal data was stored on servers in the European Economic Area, the program would "occasionally [be] required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA".[62] That July, the Audacity team apologized for the changes to the privacy policy and removed mention of the data storage provision which was added "out of an abundance of caution".[61] Awwww... :( Hey at least they removed mentioning it in the TOS! Yeyyy!... :) .....:( permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA Which most probably means that if you report a bug, you send them data about your installation and whatever additional data you include, like the email to contact you. Lawyers keep stepping on this rake time and again when writing terms and policies. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] definitely_AI@feddit.online 18 points 6 months ago (1 child) Will they get away with it? Vee'll see. I'll go home now, HEY DON'T PUSH ME permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] rtxn@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (1 child) They did not, in fact, get away with it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] definitely_AI@feddit.online 30 points 6 months ago (1 child) In May 2021, after the project was acquired by Muse Group,[58] there was a draft proposal to add opt-in telemetry to the code to record application usage. Some users responded negatively, with accusations of turning Audacity into spyware.[59] The company reversed course, falling back to error/crash reporting and optional update checking instead.[60] Another controversy in July 2021[61] resulted from a change to the privacy policy which said that although personal data was stored on servers in the European Economic Area, the program would "occasionally [be] required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA".[62] That July, the Audacity team apologized for the changes to the privacy policy and removed mention of the data storage provision which was added "out of an abundance of caution".[61] Awwww... :( Hey at least they removed mentioning it in the TOS! Yeyyy!... :) .....:( permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA Which most probably means that if you report a bug, you send them data about your installation and whatever additional data you include, like the email to contact you. Lawyers keep stepping on this rake time and again when writing terms and policies. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] rtxn@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (1 child) They did not, in fact, get away with it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] definitely_AI@feddit.online 30 points 6 months ago (1 child) In May 2021, after the project was acquired by Muse Group,[58] there was a draft proposal to add opt-in telemetry to the code to record application usage. Some users responded negatively, with accusations of turning Audacity into spyware.[59] The company reversed course, falling back to error/crash reporting and optional update checking instead.[60] Another controversy in July 2021[61] resulted from a change to the privacy policy which said that although personal data was stored on servers in the European Economic Area, the program would "occasionally [be] required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA".[62] That July, the Audacity team apologized for the changes to the privacy policy and removed mention of the data storage provision which was added "out of an abundance of caution".[61] Awwww... :( Hey at least they removed mentioning it in the TOS! Yeyyy!... :) .....:( permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA Which most probably means that if you report a bug, you send them data about your installation and whatever additional data you include, like the email to contact you. Lawyers keep stepping on this rake time and again when writing terms and policies. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] definitely_AI@feddit.online 30 points 6 months ago (1 child) In May 2021, after the project was acquired by Muse Group,[58] there was a draft proposal to add opt-in telemetry to the code to record application usage. Some users responded negatively, with accusations of turning Audacity into spyware.[59] The company reversed course, falling back to error/crash reporting and optional update checking instead.[60] Another controversy in July 2021[61] resulted from a change to the privacy policy which said that although personal data was stored on servers in the European Economic Area, the program would "occasionally [be] required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA".[62] That July, the Audacity team apologized for the changes to the privacy policy and removed mention of the data storage provision which was added "out of an abundance of caution".[61] Awwww... :( Hey at least they removed mentioning it in the TOS! Yeyyy!... :) .....:( permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA Which most probably means that if you report a bug, you send them data about your installation and whatever additional data you include, like the email to contact you. Lawyers keep stepping on this rake time and again when writing terms and policies. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA Which most probably means that if you report a bug, you send them data about your installation and whatever additional data you include, like the email to contact you. Lawyers keep stepping on this rake time and again when writing terms and policies. permalink fedilink source parent
