⚠ Key Privacy Concerns
Listening data shared with advertisers. Review the detailed analysis below to understand how this service handles your personal data.
Listening data shared with advertisers. This analysis examines their data collection, third-party sharing, and retention practices.
Listening data shared with advertisers. Review the detailed analysis below to understand how this service handles your personal data.
Listening data shared with advertisers. This practice is common in the industry but raises significant privacy concerns.
Personal data may be retained longer than necessary and shared with third parties for purposes beyond the core service.
Data is shared with advertising partners, analytics providers, and affiliated companies, expanding your privacy exposure.
Tracking verified changes to Spotify's Privacy Policy and data handling practices.
Spotify collects detailed listening data including what you play, when, how long, and your search queries. This is demonstrated annually by the Spotify Wrapped feature showing the extent of data collected.
Free tier users have listening data shared with advertisers for targeted ads. Spotify's privacy policy discloses sharing with advertising partners, measurement services, and analytics providers.
Spotify shares listening activity with friends by default. Collaborative playlists, friend activity feed, and social media connections expose listening habits unless privacy settings are manually adjusted.
Spotify provides a privacy settings page allowing users to view collected data, download their data, and adjust some (but not all) data sharing preferences.
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