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## Video: Spotify’s Mobile App Wants A Lot Of Your Personal Data

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_Published 2015-08-21. The app wants to dig into your phone, and it’s not clear exactly how Spotify uses all this data._


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## Transcript

Spotify's new privacy policy sounded aggressive, to say the least. Creepy might be a better word. After a recent app update, it wanted access to contacts, photos, or media files stored on a mobile device, data from GPS and movement sensors, some voice commands, and contact information, which, by the way, you might have to make sure is cool with your friends. Local law may require that you seek the consent of your contacts to provide their personal information to Spotify, which may use that information for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. Now Spotify has issued a blog post clarifying.

Its requirements, and hopefully stemming some panic. Access to all this data will require permission from users. And CEO Daniel Eck says we will only use it for specific purposes that will allow you to customize your Spotify experience. The one exception is sharing. Eck says Spotify shares some data with your mobile carrier if you subscribe that way, and shares some anonymous data with advertisers. Still, data hungry policies are becoming the new normal and several outlets point to Window 10's aggressive collection as an example. But, Windows, at least, has to support features like Cortana, which work best when they can analyze more data for meaning and improved speech and text recognition.

Spotify, for it's part, says the privacy and security of our customers' data is and will remain, Spotify's highest priority.

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