Episode 1210 • • 1:47:11 - 1:48:47
1210: Pain of Imprisonment
Spotify Dog Playlists, Data Profiling and Emotional Information
Spotify has introduced a feature allowing users to create music playlists for their pets. The hosts characterize this as a sophisticated data-profiling exercise designed to capture personal emotional information about the owners. By answering questions about their dog's personality, users are inadvertently providing Spotify with deep psychological data for their algorithms.