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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by belorn on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @04:52AM (#27745698)
Why is the crash report collecting information about children, and not filtering out the information so only information about the software is collected?
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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by zarzavat on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:27AM (#27746924)
It's just ass-covering legal boilerplate the same as how some software says that you can't use it in a nuclear power facility.
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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by belorn on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:43AM (#27747081)
While that is possible, I strongly suspect that in Audacity case it is because they are outsourcing the data collecting to google analytic services, and google uses the personal data as payment for the service.

They could do the data collection themselves and chose not to store personal identifiable information, in which case they can remove the legal boilerplate since it won't be needed. This suggestion naturally already exist in the GitHub issue.

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