Hi Robert.
I posted a response here: Audacity is a spyware?
Personal comment:
Regardless of the rights or wrongs of the privacy statement, the fact that it has blown up to an angry mob making threats of violence (and even death threats) against the developers of Audacity is a sad reflection of social media driven culture. An interesting and relevant new study here: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/27/e2025764118
My main concern regarding this forum, is that we don’t allow the fiasco to destroy what we are doing here, and continue to help people, which is the entire raison d’etre of this forum.