Spotify Just Got Real Creepy with the Data It Collects on You
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#2Apple are just getting dirty in the music business now. They're telling their favorite journalists about Spotify's new privacy policy - like a journalist would ever investigate such a thing!
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#3Is this for real? I pay £10 a month to avoid this crap and now I'm lumped in as well?
Screw this, I'm off to Apple Music.
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#4"Upon opening the Spotify app up this morning..."
"FORBES contacted Spotify for a response and is awaiting comment."
This tells you exactly how much time they waited for Spotify to respond. This is 'iterative journalism' at its worst: publish first, investigate later! Completely disgusting.
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#5I just wanted to note that forbes uses at least 16 trackers in this article (and does not tell you about it).
I have no problem with journalists pointing out flaws, but especially forbes likes to know a lot about its readers.
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#6"Upon opening the Spotify app up this morning..." "FORBES contacted Spotify for a response and is awaiting comment." This tells you exactly how much time they waited for Spotify to respond. This is 'iterative journalism' at its worst: publish first, investigate later! Completely disgusting.
If the article is created based on the update from the privacy policy, the last sentence only means that they're just awaiting response from spotify if they'd like to say something.
They're not asking anything, just showing the updates to readers; and IMHO it's a nice kind of journalism for me.
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#7"Upon opening the Spotify app up this morning..." "FORBES contacted Spotify for a response and is awaiting comment." This tells you exactly how much time they waited for Spotify to respond. This is 'iterative journalism' at its worst: publish first, investigate later! Completely disgusting.
Apple wrote the article for them. Forbes edited it and published it. That's the real story here, IMO.
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#8Sensor data could make sense to pick appropriate music based on activity. Perhaps the idea with the GPS is the same, although personally I'd still prefer not to share that.
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#9"Upon opening the Spotify app up this morning..." "FORBES contacted Spotify for a response and is awaiting comment." This tells you exactly how much time they waited for Spotify to respond. This is 'iterative journalism' at its worst: publish first, investigate later! Completely disgusting.
Why should Forbes wait for comment, when Spotify didn't wait for their users?
It's not as if this is something that took Spotify by surprise, like a data hack, that would require time to formulate a legally-sound response.
They will have been planning and implementing this change for months. They could have issued a press release two weeks ago advising their customers of the upcoming changes, but didn't.
Spotify seem to like surprises, so Forbes played one on them.
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#10"Upon opening the Spotify app up this morning..." "FORBES contacted Spotify for a response and is awaiting comment." This tells you exactly how much time they waited for Spotify to respond. This is 'iterative journalism' at its worst: publish first, investigate later! Completely disgusting.
Apple wrote the article for them. Forbes edited it and published it. That's the real story here, IMO.
Yeah you already said that elsewhere, also without any kind of proof or even a hint that it might be true.