The open-source software is now collecting user data for "app analytics" and "improving our app" as well as "for legal enforcement."

Muse Group is collecting details about users' operating system version, processor, country based on IP address, crash reports and non-fatal error codes and messages. According to the policy, processing that data is in the "legitimate interest" of the company "to offer and ensure the proper functioning of the app."

The data it collects on law enforcement grounds is more vague. The policy says Muse Group will capture "data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities' requests (if any)." It may share personal data with "any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary." Data may be shared with potential buyers too.

To be short - software sends parts of all audio files for recognition and mark any file that has copyright owner. After this they sell this information in big batches to such owners to allow them to get big money from them. Main target for attacks are firms and individual workers with significant income who can use file without authorization or with wrong license. Before it was impossible to track this if you do not upload result to big online platform, but now offline software will track all of your actions and sell all this info to anyone who will pay for it.

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Apple has increased the amount of data stored in Google's "clouds" - the needs of the tech giant are growing rapidly, and its own server infrastructure can no longer cope with new challenges.

Apple intended to spend $ 300 million on Google cloud servers in 2021, a 50% increase over last year. It is known that only last November, Apple increased the amount of data stored by Google by 470 petabytes - the total amount was 8 exabytes.

At the same time, Apple is the absolute leader in terms of memory requirements. The 470 petabytes added by the company in November - almost the same as Google's second largest client, TikTok owner ByteDance. Apple has struck a very good deal. Based on calculations using a calculator on one of Google's sites, storing 8 exabytes should cost $218 million per month. Apple pays only $300 million a year for this amount of data.

It is not yet known when exactly Apple's demand for Google cloud services grew so noticeably. Apparently, it is more profitable for a company to "rent" memory than to build data centers on its own, or Apple simply does not have time to do this, not coping with the avalanche of new data.

The third in the "ranking" of Google customers is Spotify with 460 petabytes, followed by Twitter (315 petabytes) and Snapchat (275 petabytes).

Apple stores its information not only on Google servers, but also on Amazon. The data is encrypted by the "apple" company, so the partner providers do not have access to them.

It is big reason why they do it, as all companies are tightly interconnected and provide info and patents to each other as well as share most profitable sectors, like government and military.