On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 07:16:55PM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2021 Mon, 23 Aug 10:39:28 -0400 > Hendrik Boom scripsit: ... ... > > > > Audacity does not collect data unless you opt in to data collection. > > > > You do not need to do this. > > If the data are necessary for law enforcement, Audacity will hand it > > over. This is presumably required by law, whether is is mentioned in the > > privacy agreement or not. > > When you think about this, it's most alarming. There is no need for this > functunality in the first place. "Sombody" has to work hard (infrastructure, > time, resources) to implement this surveillance functionality. If it costs, > "somebody" will want to ge a revenue. There is no such thing as a law to > force the user to give data out of his/her hands unwillingly.
I don't see a serious need for wuch functionality. May I point out though, that even Debian has a feature that reports what packages you have installed. But, of course, only if you install that feature. > > This is a road everybody should pay close attention and if a project takes > that turn - drop it. > > > There's no indication they will change the data they collect because law > > enforcement requests it. > > This is not reassuring, on the contrary. And it's not really clear what information they are collecting. > > > If law enforcement needs additional user data beyond what audacity has, > > they presumably have to collect it from the user. > > So why sould the user accept audacity to to the police job? I prsume you meant > So why sould the user accept audacity to do the police job? If the olice want the data from a user, they will likely have to get a search warrant and serve it on the user.. > > > As for the use of the software by children, audacity should simply refuse > > to collect any data from children, and > > * ask the user if they are children > > * and if so, simply not colect those data, whether telemetry is turned > > on or off. > > In my country this kind of "data gathering" is not allowed aka illegal, not > only for children. Audacity will have a bad press when this goes public - and > every distribution with this kind of spyware will get it's dose of "told you > it's not better than Windows". A sane country you have. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
