Spotify builds a profile of inferences about who you are — including your estimated age, interests, and preferences — based on how you use the service.
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The operational significance is that Spotify establishes authority to process usage data into categorical inferences about user characteristics and preferences. These derived inferences may be used for service personalization, analytics, or other purposes described elsewhere in the privacy policy.
Spotify creates inferred profiles about your age, interests, and preferences from your listening and usage behavior, and these inferences are used to target you with advertising — this profiling occurs even if you have not directly provided this information to Spotify.
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"inferences (i.e., our understanding) of your age, interests and preferences based on your usage of the Spotify Service— Excerpt from Spotify's Spotify Privacy Policy
1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Inference generation from usage data implicates CCPA/CPRA (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.140(o) — 'personal information' includes inferences drawn from information to create a profile; §1798.100 right to know extends to inferences); Virginia VCDPA §59.1-575 (profiling definition includes inferences); Colorado CPA §6-1-1303 (profiling for decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects); FTC Act Section 5 regarding profiling without adequate consumer notice. CPPA and FTC are primary enforcement authorities. 2)
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The operational significance is that Spotify establishes authority to process usage data into categorical inferences about user characteristics and preferences. These derived inferences may be used for service personalization, analytics, or other purposes described elsewhere in the privacy policy.
Spotify creates inferred profiles about your age, interests, and preferences from your listening and usage behavior, and these inferences are used to target you with advertising — this profiling occurs even if you have not directly provided this information to Spotify.
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