> 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
Lol
> 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.
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.
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.