Two weeks after negative media and public response led to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek clarifying the company’s privacy policy, the music-streaming service has released a new privacy policy designed to “more clearly state why and when the company will ask for access to information like users’ photos and GPS data—as well as how that information is used,” NBC reports. The new policy, which comes with an easy-to-use table of contents and is in “plain language,” makes it clear that Spotify divides data into two categories: data needed to use the Spotify service and data Spotify can use for extra benefits. This latter category can only be accessed by Spotify with explicit user consent, the policy states.
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