Spotify automatically shares all its users' activity with followers and with the public. If you're using Spotify, you may be making more of your musical tastes public than you realize.
And its default settings prioritize sharing this information with the world, the better to help its network of users more easily find new music. The report illuminated a complaint that had been simmering in user forums: Spotify won't let users block another user from seeing their activity, unlike social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. SAN FRANCISCO – Most people probably don't set up their Spotify accounts thinking about who can see their listening habits and that someone could use this knowledge to harass them.īut that's exactly how some people are using the popular music streaming app, according to a report from Buzzfeed, which talked to women who said their ex-boyfriends were using the information Spotify makes public about individual users' listening habits to stalk and intimidate.
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