We take precautions to allow access to Personal Data only to those staff members who have a legitimate business need for access and with a contractual prohibition of using the Personal Data for any other purpose. We may disclose the Personal Data listed above (your hashed IP address) to the following categories of recipients: Who does Audacity share your Personal Data with? Audacity’s new privacy policyįinally, to muddy the issue further, they updated their privacy policy: It reads that the Muse Group gets all rights to the written code, which is decidedly against the previous open source spirt of the program. They also updated their Contributor License Agreement, which developers have to sign if they choose to work on the Audacity code. So naturally they’re paranoid and skeptical. The company has to make money one way or another, whether that’s through bloatware or shadier practices. That is, in part, the unfortunate reality behind free services. The user community is naturally and rightfully fed up with companies offering a (usually free) service and selling their data off to the highest bidder. Never mind the ulterior purposes that Google may have, scores of other companies collect data and sell it off to marketing companies and others (a practice, I might add, that Smartsound will NEVER do). Telemetry, in short, is product feedback. Google uses telemetry to make sure programs like Chrome work, as well as to refine your searches on their engine in attempt to get you more relevant results. First, they added telemetry, that is, the ability for the program to send back user data to the Muse Group. Just what happened?Īfter the Muse Group bought Audacity, they began to quickly stir up controversy. It was this newly minted Muse Group that purchased Audacity and triggered the controversy. Later, in 2007 they updated the program for smart phones, and have since created a true multinational brand with employees across the globe.Īs they expanded, purchasing and creating new brands and services, they decided to make a new umbrella brand, called the Muse Group. It allowed users to download lyrics and tablature to play their favorite covers. In 1998, a Moscow-based dev team led by Eugeny Naidenov created the famous Ultimate Guitar app for the PC. The Muse Group is a new brand, but an old company. Recently the Muse Group purchased the software program. Perhaps unsurprisingly, none of this has gone down well with Audacity users, and there has been a vocal backlash once again on social media, causing FOSS Post to tell people to uninstall the software, while on GitHub and Reddit there are renewed calls to create a forked version of the software.A screenshot of the freeware audio editor Audacity The mother company However, we are occasionally required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA. The privacy document also points out that:Īll your personal data is stored on our servers in the European Economic Area (EEA). Crash reports in Breakpad MiniDump format.
Non-fatal error codes and messages (i.e.Falling into this category is quite a lot of personal data: The Russian company behind things justifies this collection and data processing for the "legitimate interest of WSM Group to defend its legal rights and interests".īut more controversial are the "app analytics" collected in the name of "improving our app". Falling under the heading of data collected "for legal enforcement" is "data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)". In the policy update - which was posted to little fanfare on Friday - the Audacity team sets out the personal information it collects from users, and explains why. Audacity bows to public pressure and says it will NOT collect telemetry data from users.
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