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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