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Doesn't the GDPR require that users have the ability to download their data?
by funcDropShadow 6y ago
Doesn't the GDPR require that users have the ability to download their data?
- jbverschoor 6y agoYup. in a usable and machine processable format.
- bimusiek 6y agoSpotify can argue that they allow it per user request and they do have control over their public API. And they exercise their option to block unwanted services to use their API. Shitty, but theoretically legal.
- imglorp 6y agoThe service in question from OP is not using Spotify's API so no license applied. It sounds like they're automating/scraping, which in the US at least, was just ruled legal.[1] Of course, that puts scraper and scrapee into a leapfrog contest. As OP points out, the best defense against customers leaving is to actually listen to them and please them. In this area, while Spotify might have a giant catalog, they are blatantly tormenting users by removing obvious, simple, features demanded by the thousands of votes on their forum. 1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2019/09/10/linkedin-data-scraping-ruled-legal/#63de0f6f1b54 https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2019/09/10/linke...
- cryptixvi 6y agoBased on the article - I wouldn't be surprised if they complied by providing you a SHA256 hash for every song in your playlist.
- toper-centage 6y agoThey do give you you a list of playlists containing song titles and artists.
- thesimon 6y agoJust requested my file, they say it'll take up to 30 days to get my data. Let's see. Edit: still waiting, but found an example here: https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/what-i-got-when-i-requested-data-from-spotify https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/what-i-got-when-i-reques... Seems quite usable data.
- falcolas 6y agoWhen this came up on Reddit the other day, someone mentioned that most of the data is limited to the last two years, with playlists created before that not appearing. Something to keep an eye open for.