Here's what all user data Spotify collects (Spoiler: everything)

EU’s law on user data and privacy – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – has given users the right to request all their data that’s collected by a service or a company.

Recently, a Spotify user – Peter Steinberger – exercised this right of theirs, and then took to Twitter to share what all the data the music streaming service has been collecting.

Yeah, everything, including IP addresses, window sizes, connection timeouts, and what song user stops and when.

Not only this, Steinberger found even the brand of their headphones in the data revealed by Spotify.

It’s not clear if the company officially offers a break up of what it does with all this data.

Of course, some of the data is used for offering customized experience to users. However, several users are of the opinion the company just collects everything it can, with no specific plan on how to use all the extra stuff.

To conclude, this is just one user sharing their data. More details could emerge if other Spotify users demand this info from the company and share that publicly.

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