Great wow factor but is it legal? Is it ethical? Is code that can't be trusted any use?

All this because the new Audacity owners added some crash reporting to an OSS project which meant also adding a privacy policy. This wasn’t even targeted at the original maintainers, the person was just someone forking the repo: github.com/tenacityteam/t… twitter.com/spacekookie/st…

For anyone not yet aware the official privacy policy was updated on the 2nd of July and contains some very disturbing things, most notably under data collection is "Data necessary for law ...

В Белоусово (Калужская область) вместо «Спутника V» вкалывают воду. Всё из-за нехватки вакцин..

 All viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, change over time. Most changes have little to no impact on the virus’ properties. However, some changes may affect the virus’s properties, such as how easily it spreads, the associated disease severity, or the performance of vaccines, therapeutic medicines, diagnostic tools, or other public health and social measures. WHO, in collaboration with partners, expert networks, national authorities, institutions and researchers have been monitoring and assessing the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 since January 2020. During late 2020, the emergence of variants that posed an increased risk to global public health prompted the characterisation of specific Variants of Interest (VOIs) and Variants of Concern (VOCs), in order to prioritise global monitoring and research, and ultimately to inform the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  WHO and its international networks of experts are monitoring changes to the virus so that if significant amino acid substitutions…

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