On there is a thread with corresponding discussions. Especially the last item in the mentioned list makes many observers sit up and take notice. Sounds harmless at the moment, but based on past history, people are skeptical. In the new privacy policy dated July 2, 2021, they explicitly reserve the right to collect personal data such as operating system version and details, the user's country, identified via their IP, CPU and error codes, and possibly data requested by authorities. But that was probably more of a maneuver to wait for the furor to die down. This apparently caused Muse management to an u-turn. The move didn't go over well in the community and there was mighty anger. For example, they wanted to use Google Analytics to find out more about how the program was being used. I had reported in early May 2021 in the blog post Audacity and its telemetry: New management's middle finger to the community about the new management's plans to add some 'basic telemetry features' to the software. And within a short period of time, this management has managed to whip the community into quite a frenzy.

However, the open-source audio software Audacity was recently acquired by Muse Group, which also put a new management in charge of operations.

The Windows program has long been quite popular among users who need to edit audio data. Audacity is a free audio editor and recorder that allows mixing and editing of any number of tracks of audio files.

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