Spotify Web Player Privacy Policy: Streaming Music Program Wants to Know Everything About Users
Spotify wants to know as much data about their users as possible. A brand new privacy policy will allow the streaming music service to see users' contacts, view their photos and much more.
The new privacy policy goes into effect with the latest update of Spotify, and users will be able to read the long text of the policy before clicking "accept."
First, Spotify wants to see who users are talking to and what photos they are taking. This means the service will have permission to go through users' contacts lists to see who they are talking to. They also want to see users' photos and other media files, Wired reports.
Spotify explains in the privacy policy that users may be required by local law enforcement to ask their contacts if it is acceptable for them to provide their personal information to Spotify. It's pretty unlikely that users will go through their entire contact list and ask each contact to consent to sharing information with Spotify.
Next, Spotify wants to know what places users are going. The company will use phones' GPS systems or other location services to get data about where users are and even how fast they are going in a car, on foot or on a train. The purpose of finding out how fast users are traveling is for Spotify Running, which matches songs to the pace of the runner.
Finally, Spotify wants to see what users are posting on third party websites like Facebook. This means Spotify will see information from users' profiles, their likes on Facebook, and other information they make publicly available on the Internet. If users do not want to make data public to Spotify, they should go into their settings and disconnect third party apps from Spotify.
There is not much that users can do to fight this new privacy policy from Spotify besides not upgrading to the latest software or clicking decline when they see the new policy.
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