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This is an extremely unfair headline. The amount of data Audacity collects (or could possibly sell) does not compare to ANY closed source app on your phone. It'
by rozab 5y ago
This is an extremely unfair headline. The amount of data Audacity collects (or could possibly sell) does not compare to ANY closed source app on your phone. It's nothing compared to the amount of cookies the BBC website does not allow you to opt out of.
I totally agree that we should hold software to a high standard, and am upset that this is happening to Audacity, but this article implies that Audacity is somehow dodgier than TikTok, FB, Twitter, Google, etc. It's completely irresponsible.
- perihelions 5y agoThe BBC built the most cartoonishly evil spyware ever invented: roaming surveillance vans conducting van Eck phreaking on their users' houses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van#Detection_techniques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van#Detection_tech...
- 12ian34 5y agohttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/bbc-tv-licence-vans-wi-fi-snooping-analysis/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/bbc-tv-licence-v...
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- perihelions 5y agoThank you for that link! It's interesting they're still claiming to be using something like this, in the digital era.