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Spotify’s plans to guess listeners’ gender will hurt trans people and reinforce stereotypes – rights group

Posted on April 4, 2021April 4, 2021By Editor

A digital rights group has lashed out at music service Spotify over new technology that would listen in on users to better predict what they want to listen to. The plan discriminates against trans and non-binary people, it said. … Read More >Spotify’s plans to guess listeners’ gender will hurt trans people and reinforce stereotypes – rights group

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On Spotify, music listens to you: Streaming platform wins patent to surveil users’ emotions to recommend music

Posted on January 31, 2021January 31, 2021By Editor

Streaming music platform Spotify has won a patent enabling it to snoop on users’ speech and even background noise in order to gauge emotional states and location types to serve up an appropriate soundtrack. Not creepy at all! … Read More >On Spotify, music listens to you: Streaming platform wins patent to surveil users’ emotions to recommend music

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Ongoing global outages of iOS for Twitter, Tinder, Spotify and Pinterest are linked to Facebook software

Posted on July 11, 2020July 11, 2020By Editor

The social media company Facebook’s software development kit is thought to be the cause of current outages of several apps including heavy hitters such as Spotify and Tinder. … Read More >Ongoing global outages of iOS for Twitter, Tinder, Spotify and Pinterest are linked to Facebook software