Ivan is a Big Tech and India specialist. He also covers security, platforms, AI, policy, and apps for TNW. It's a lot of stuff. He loves to say "Bleh." Ivan is a journalist covering Big Tech, India and policy. He also covers security, platforms, and apps to TNW. It's a lot of stuff. He loves to say "Bleh."Audacity is a program that allows you to record audio and podcasts from your computer. Audacity is a cross-platform, free and open-source app that allows you to record and edit audio on multiple tracks.After the acquisition by Muse in April, Audacity's privacy policy was put into effect on July 2. Audacity will now collect additional data about you, including your operating system version, processor and country, as well as crash reports and non-fatal errors codes and messages.All this information is being collected by the company under the pretense of law enforcement, litigation, and authority requests (if any).Audacity's new privacy policy collects multiple data points from youEngadget reported that the new privacy policy stores your data for one day in an indefinable manner, and bans users under 13 for unspecified reasons.Community members on the Linux subreddit complained that this change violated privacy and that there was no good reason to collect this information.The community was also urged to develop a forked version, as Audacity's source code is open-sourced. You can also download older versions. Other alternatives include Oceanaudio or Wavosaur. We are grateful for open-sourced software.Did you know that we have a newsletter dedicated to consumer tech? Plugged In is the name of this newsletter and you can sign up right here.
