Audacity, the audio editing software, has rejected claims against its new privacy policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recall that last weekend some open-source news media, especially FOSS-focused personal technology websites FOSSPost and SlashGear, warned their readers that the popular open-source audio editing app Audacity is now “spyware.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The updated policy shows that the company can share data with Russia and regional law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Audacity says that the only data it exchanges with users are software updates and bug reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to FOSSPost, Audacity’s new owner, Muse Group might “do some pretty damaging changes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The findings show that the root cause of the concerns stems from Muse Group’s privacy policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Muse Group’s head of strategy told the BBC the company does not want or care about user data because it has no benefit to them.<\/p>\n\n\n
For more information, read the original story(s) in Arstechnica<\/a> and the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Audacity, the audio editing software, has rejected claims against its new privacy policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8007,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}