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Audacity Developers Apologize, Revise Controversial Privacy Policy

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 22nd of July 2021 04:42:54 PM Filed under
Software

20 days ago, FOSS Post was one of the first media outlets to publish about the new privacy policy for Audacity; a popular open source audio editor. In the old privacy policy, broad and unlimited legal contexts were introduced for data-collection, which unleashed a huge backlash from the community.

Later on, angry users and developers went to create different forks for Audacity. The most famous one right now is Tenacity, which aims to be a privacy-focused alternative to Audacity.

However, Audacity developers, just today, revised their privacy policy and removed the troublesome parts from it.

Although a bit late (Like, very late) to the party, the developers say that they are “deeply sorry for the significant lapse in communication caused by the original privacy policy document“.

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Apologetic Audacity rewrites privacy policy...

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 28th of July 2021 04:58:11 PM.
  • Apologetic Audacity rewrites privacy policy after 'significant lapse in communication'

    Open-source audio editor Audacity this week posted an apology on GitHub in response to the entirely predictable furore over the platform's privacy policy.

    An updated privacy policy accompanied the apology, in which the team insisted it had just been misunderstood, and that a look at the source would have shown its intentions.

    "We are deeply sorry for the significant lapse in communication caused by the original privacy policy document," it said. The fact that it didn't regret the actual document itself seemed to alarm a good many users.

    The update removes phrasing that "discourages children under 13 years old from using Audacity." The wording has also been updated to emphasise that no additional data is being collected for law enforcement purposes and that no personally identifiable information is being stored.

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