We have removed the provision that discourages children under 13 years old from using Audacity.We have explained the purpose of the two networking features, error reporting and update checking.Phrasing has been adjusted to remove ambiguity or aid in transparency, in particular that we do not collect any additional information for law enforcement or any other purpose.The Audacity team is eager to be seen as being open with its users, and keen to make it clear that there is nothing untoward going on. There is quite some detail given about the meaning of what is mean by different elements of the new policy and the telemetry involved. We are deeply sorry for the significant lapse in communication caused by the original privacy policy document. The new privacy policy uses clearer language that we hope will explain our intentions more accurately this time. We want to address the issues that were raised, give assurances about our intentions, and provide verifiable proof of what information is actually sent from Audacity. The original policy, which was drafted in anticipation of the release of Audacity 3.0.3, received a large amount of media attention due to the inclusion of a few key provisions that appeared to some to violate promises we had previously made. We are introducing a revised privacy policy to address the concerns raised with the previous privacy policy published earlier in July. In the introduction to fairly lengthy post that apologies and explains without either grovelling or patronising, the team says:
Learning from this, the developers say: "From now on we will provide context for changes we make to the policy in a user friendly way". In its apology, the Audacity team blames the fact that the privacy policy was prepared as a legal text which resulted in the use of phrasing that was unclear to many people. Audacity bows to public pressure and says it will NOT collect telemetry data from users.Audacity branded 'possible spyware' after controversial privacy policy update.Audacity responds to concerns about its controversial privacy policy.
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