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> All your personal data is stored on our servers in the European Economic Area (EEA). However, we are occasionally required to share your personal data with ou

by peytn 5y ago

> All your personal data is stored on our servers in the European Economic Area (EEA). However, we are occasionally required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA. Lol

dylan604 5y ago
So, in summary, we save the data everywhere and anywhere we choose, for which ever reason necessary at the time.
- prox 5y ago
  I remember software was dumb. I think I like dumb software.
mackrevinack 5y ago
just occasionally though :p
rattray 5y ago
That's pretty much what I assume is true of any software I use these days, and it doesn't bother me. As long as governments need a warrant to access my data, I'm okay with their ability to do so - it's incumbent on me to be careful about the information I allow into software. Product usage telemetry and crash reports from an open source audio editing app is an obvious whitelist from me. If they start scraping the contents of my hard drive, that's another thing, but Occam's Razor doesn't indicate that motivation here.
- butwhywhyoh 5y ago
  The problem is as more and more people like yourself acquiesce to this kind of surveillance, we will slowly approach the day when another version of you is fine with a government scraping your hard drive data as long as it requires a warrant to access it.
  - rattray 5y ago
    "This kind of surveillance" meaning… crash reports from audio-editing software? I am absolutely NOT fine with audio-editing software scraping my hard drive, and would uninstall it immediately and request my friends do the same if that came to light. This isn't that.
aydwi 5y ago
Piggybacking on this, the first thing I wanted to look at was what data do they exactly collect. Well, they do not explicitly list it (not sure if that would be considered legal in countries with strict privacy laws). I quote from the offcial announcement - > Personal Data we collect > Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any) This, and this alone is enough for me to neither use this piece of software, nor recommend its usage. There's more however. Not only do you not know what information they leech off of your machine, it may be sold to a third party for a price. > Who does Audacity share your Personal Data with? > to a potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your Personal Data only for the purposes disclosed in this Notice; This is absolutely despicable.

by peytn 5y ago

dylan604 5y ago

So, in summary, we save the data everywhere and anywhere we choose, for which ever reason necessary at the time.

prox 5y ago
I remember software was dumb. I think I like dumb software.

mackrevinack 5y ago

just occasionally though :p

rattray 5y ago

That's pretty much what I assume is true of any software I use these days, and it doesn't bother me. As long as governments need a warrant to access my data, I'm okay with their ability to do so - it's incumbent on me to be careful about the information I allow into software. Product usage telemetry and crash reports from an open source audio editing app is an obvious whitelist from me. If they start scraping the contents of my hard drive, that's another thing, but Occam's Razor doesn't indicate that motivation here.

butwhywhyoh 5y ago
The problem is as more and more people like yourself acquiesce to this kind of surveillance, we will slowly approach the day when another version of you is fine with a government scraping your hard drive data as long as it requires a warrant to access it.
- rattray 5y ago
  "This kind of surveillance" meaning… crash reports from audio-editing software? I am absolutely NOT fine with audio-editing software scraping my hard drive, and would uninstall it immediately and request my friends do the same if that came to light. This isn't that.

aydwi 5y ago

Piggybacking on this, the first thing I wanted to look at was what data do they exactly collect. Well, they do not explicitly list it (not sure if that would be considered legal in countries with strict privacy laws). I quote from the offcial announcement - > Personal Data we collect > Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any) This, and this alone is enough for me to neither use this piece of software, nor recommend its usage. There's more however. Not only do you not know what information they leech off of your machine, it may be sold to a third party for a price. > Who does Audacity share your Personal Data with? > to a potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your Personal Data only for the purposes disclosed in this Notice; This is absolutely despicable.