Last week, Spotify unveiled a new privacy policy that proved to be controversial. The new policy explained how Spotify plans to use personal information to enhance its features and would do so by collecting information about users’ location, contacts and photos, among other data. The changes prompted Norway’s data protection authority to criticize the company, and Minecraft creator Markus Persson to say he’d cancel his subscription. But the day after unveiling the new policy, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek clarified that Spotify would seek express permission from users before accessing any of the data and would only use it for the specific purposes for which it was collected, Wired reports. Some say the incident illustrates the dangers of poor messaging, not poor policies.
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