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1) I don't use Spotify. 2) I know how permissions work on mobile devices, therefore I know exactly why they need access to all this new stuff and I know the pe

1) I don't use Spotify. 2) I know how permissions work on mobile devices, therefore I know exactly why they need access to all this new stuff and I know the permission can be denied if I wanted to

mbrutsch 11y ago
> I know how permissions work on mobile devices, therefore I know exactly why they need access to all this new stuff Those two things are not even remotely related. Your knowledge of the permissions on a mobile device sheds exactly zero light on what is going on in the minds of the Spotify employees who participated in this decision.
- SlashmanX 11y ago
  I know that they need location access for the running feature. I know that they need access to photos to allow changing of profile pic. That's what's going through their minds "We want to add this feature, but hey wait, we need a new permission and we'll have to update our privacy policy accordingly"
  - mfjordvald 11y ago
    This is entirely possible yes. I have also worked with people for whom that was just the public reason and the less nice uses were very much on their mind privately. Comes down to whether you trust corporations or not.
jbb555 11y ago
Again, the problem is only partly the app permissions. The problem is the license that forces you to basically agree that the app can trawl through all of your personal data and do whatever they like with it. If they had carefully enumerated why they needed all that data, under what cirumstances the app would actually use it, and limits on what they promised to do with it then people would have been happier. But no, it basically says you must give access to all the data on your phone, your contacts, your facebook account details, your physical location, and gives them permission to do whatever they like with them including posting them all in public
- SlashmanX 11y ago
  Isn't that what they did here: https://news.spotify.com/ie/2015/08/21/sorry-2/ https://news.spotify.com/ie/2015/08/21/sorry-2/

1) I don't use Spotify. 2) I know how permissions work on mobile devices, therefore I know exactly why they need access to all this new stuff and I know the permission can be denied if I wanted to

mbrutsch 11y ago

> I know how permissions work on mobile devices, therefore I know exactly why they need access to all this new stuff Those two things are not even remotely related. Your knowledge of the permissions on a mobile device sheds exactly zero light on what is going on in the minds of the Spotify employees who participated in this decision.

SlashmanX 11y ago
I know that they need location access for the running feature. I know that they need access to photos to allow changing of profile pic. That's what's going through their minds "We want to add this feature, but hey wait, we need a new permission and we'll have to update our privacy policy accordingly"
- mfjordvald 11y ago
  This is entirely possible yes. I have also worked with people for whom that was just the public reason and the less nice uses were very much on their mind privately. Comes down to whether you trust corporations or not.

jbb555 11y ago

Again, the problem is only partly the app permissions. The problem is the license that forces you to basically agree that the app can trawl through all of your personal data and do whatever they like with it. If they had carefully enumerated why they needed all that data, under what cirumstances the app would actually use it, and limits on what they promised to do with it then people would have been happier. But no, it basically says you must give access to all the data on your phone, your contacts, your facebook account details, your physical location, and gives them permission to do whatever they like with them including posting them all in public

SlashmanX 11y ago
Isn't that what they did here: https://news.spotify.com/ie/2015/08/21/sorry-2/ https://news.spotify.com/ie/2015/08/21/sorry-2/