Tried the GDPR data export from Spotify. By default, you get like 6 JSON files with almost nothing. After many emails and complaining and a month of waiting, I got a 250MB archive with basically EVERY INTERACTION I ever did with any Spotify client, all my searches. Everything.
Any interaction I ever did, including window sizes, connection timeouts, what song I stopped when. Nothing particular interesting, just every-freaking-thing.
They even store the brand of headphone I use. How do you even get that data, digging deep in CoreBluetooth?
Throttling support is pretty common. Why not use all time, they don’t gain anything from doing that fast. In a month I might have lost interest.
Maybe this song explains things.
And they need to store window size from my Mac client for that?
Probably the norm.
IP is kinda location data, isn’t it
Pretty sure it’s some “let’s collect all and aee what we can use” paradigm.
years
indeed, so pretty
Regular support
I could probably, but I’d love for someone else to take over a more in-depth research. Need to run a company and that eats up most of my time.
DM, but not about that tweet. Already spent way too much time answering questions on that.
Took long enough.
Props to @NOYBeu for being persistent, and shame to Sweden for taking 4 years and litigation against the IMY (their data privacy office) to decide *anything*. Happy that my data set and complain was useful in showing big companies that they are not above the law.