![]() “This is because of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act),” she said on Twitter, referring to United States federal law which aims to protect children’s data by requiring companies to label their websites as 13+ to start collecting minors’ personal information. Merrill also addressed another point of concern in Audacity’s new privacy update, which states that the app is “not intended for individuals below the age of 13”. But it’s a good example of why you need to thoughtfully explain data processing in policies: people will assume the worst,” she said, adding that most other privacy policies use “the same language”. “Updates – responding to requests sale of company language – here are misunderstood. However, according to DPO and infosec lawyer Whitney Merrill, “nothing about this is unusual”. ![]() Others have branded the software as “spyware”, with calls to delete the app or disconnect it from accessing the internet. ![]() Users of Audacity took to Twitter to express their outrage, with one asking: “Wait what? Why is the most robust and widely used free audio recording software collecting personal data and sending it to Russia? What the hell is going on?”.
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