Yeah, you'd think they would have picked non-Russian MS telemetry for data collection to avoid complaints. It is being forked and for now Debian 10 and 11 only package from the older source code. On the other hand it's a CC license and maybe they figure Linux distros can solve their own issues with the added data mining. More than likely they were forced into it by MS's legal liability positions with countries other than the US.
https://packages.debian.org/buster/audacity
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https://packages.debian.org/buster/audacity
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