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It's not called a spyware, it turned into a spyware after acquisition
Who would aquire a piece of pretty niche software to use strategically as a spying platform? Is the information that can be gained really worth that much?
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> people complain about Firefox as well Not nearly as vehemently as with Audacity.
If Firefox had told people they would collect data for law enforcement there would be more noise there as well. There are good and legitimate reasons for collecting user data, but many of us think it should be voluntarily, minimal and at least not shared with anyone for anything but its original purpose. In fact we had a very interesting court case in Høgsterett (kind of Supreme Court) here last week where it was fin…
Erm... Firefox has told people that they would hand data to law enforcement. They have to! Everyone has to!
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/
> When do we share your information with others?
> When the law requires it. We follow the law whenever we receive requests about you from a government or related to a lawsuit.
Is it like, Audacity is widely used by whistleblowers, so by tracking down its users, authorities could prevent human rights violation from being uncovered? What else are these features useful in context of “law enforcement”?