We live in a relatively free country where political dissent is tolerated religious persecution is largely unknown and people do not need to hide their sexual preferences from the police. Most people are sophisticated enough to understand the difference between a public and private post. If certain private information becomes public As far as I can tell this has been going since Spotify first launched in the US. And much of this data goes straight into the Facebook data mining machine. It is here that Spotify trades OUR songs for YOUR Data. The overwhelming number of streams on Spotify are on the ad supported tier.

Folks who think Spotify is just a music platform are mistaken. Screenshot from Facebook Open Music Graph Developers Page.īut the more important reason they are so tightly integrated is to harvest data. But less famous names and funds share investments in the company. Most notable are funds connected to Sean Parker (of Napster fame) and U2’s Bono ( Elevation Partners and TPG).

Major Facebook and Spotify shareholders overlap. The first is probably relatively harmless. Particularly bothersome to many folks is that they often ended up sharing playlists, or songs they didn’t really intend to share. To illustrate just how integrated the companies are when I was offered a free premium account by Spotify (a sort of peace offering) somehow linking it to my email address reactivated my deleted Facebook account! I am not kidding.Īnd over the years many other people have complained about the tight integration between Facebook and Spotify. When you sign up for Spotify from a web browser, you are encouraged to sign up using your Facebook login so they can associate your account with your profile. More than most other services Spotify and the Facebook platform are heavily integrated. This includes the music streaming service Spotify. Virtually every free digital app is spying on you and sharing that data with 3rd parties. What most people don’t realize is that Facebook is not unique. Governments in half a dozen countries have announced some sort of investigation into the company.

The public has woken up to the fact that Facebook is a spying and privacy violating machine. Guest post by David Lowery of The Trichordist

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