I set the wiping before anyone even considered IP addresses personal information from a legal standpoint purely due to disk space issues over a decade ago. Some people overreacted to changes in the privacy policy (things that most other apps already do) and then inappropriate slapped. We technically collect "personal" information in the form of IP addresses (mostly only the EU considers it personal) for the standard Apache logs, though we don't save the logs permanently and it's entirely deleted every few days. Audacity bows to public pressure and says it will NOT collect telemetry data from users.
Side Note: In a similar fashion, our privacy policy for is written more broadly than is necessary as that was the standard way to do it when I had written it using online guides. Audio editor Audacity has the audacity to add telemetry collection - and users are not happy. Edit: There already is a preliminary fork, here. More technically inclined folks will be able to blackhole any suspicious network traffic via firewall rules or fun and profit with DNS.
#Source audacity audio editor not spyware update#
It seems that may be the case and we'll see how they adjust the policy over the coming days: It's not spyware but at this point it's not Open Source either, because it is in violation of the GPL due to their recent addition of telemtry and the subsequent update of their privacy policy which does not allow people under the age of 13 to use the program. Since Audacity's licensing has not changed, and is unlikely to change, someone will inevitably 'fork' the source code, and build a 'spyware-free' version. As there was no accompanying release with the July 2 change in privacy policy, I was thinking that it was being written overly broad for a specific situation.