<div dir="ltr"><div>The "concerning part" in question very much reads like standard catch-all disclaimer, which would initially mean it is just there to save their butts in case of the outlying case. <br></div><div><br></div><div>However, this got me thinking about what kind of information a government entity would possibly ask Audacity to collect for them? And that really gets terrifying quickly. Could the government demand that audacity record an "audio fingerprint" of any Audacity project a user creates that could help identify the creator of a piece of media considered unfavourable to the government? And whose government? Add to that the possibility of courts subpoenaing this info for copyright related lawsuits and this spirals downward very quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>I never used to be the kind of person who worried about this kind of thing. Then the government of my country started to terrify me with their actions. And I don't even live in one of the scary countries</div><div><br></div><div>Brent<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 17:10, Znoteer via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 01:19:43AM -0400, Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc wrote:<br>
> Looks like Audacity project changed hands a few months ago, and has now<br>
> released an updated privacy notice, indicating that they collect<br>
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Ars Technica just published an article on this subject:<br>
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