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No Automated Decision-Making with Legal Effect

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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This right imposes a meaningful limit on Spotify's use of automated systems by requiring human involvement in decisions that could materially affect users' legal standing or equivalent interests.

Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
4
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 931 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

You hold a recognized right to be free from purely automated decisions—including decisions derived from profiling—that carry legal weight or a similarly significant impact on you.

How other platforms handle this

Anthropic Medium

Anthropic does not engage in decision making based solely on automated processing or profiling in a manner which produces a legal effect...or significantly affects you in a similar way...

ZipRecruiter Medium

We use automated decision-making to help improve our products and services to you. For example, we may use automated technologies to send you job alert emails regarding roles that may be of interest to you based upon your search criteria...

Tabnine Medium

Object to an automated decision-making (including profiling) in certain circumstances.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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Not be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision making (decisions without human involvement), including profiling, where the decision would have a legal effect on you or produce a similarly significant effect.

— Excerpt from Spotify's Spotify Privacy Policy

Applicable regulations

EU AI Act
European Union
GDPR
European Union
UK GDPR
United Kingdom

Provision details

Document information
Document
Spotify Privacy Policy
Entity
Spotify
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
April 28, 2026
Last verified
May 12, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-018872
Document ID
CA-D-00036
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
62bfd0910e1d9815b6915626d36d1058b28aa407638be86ce562523eaf99f811
Analysis generated
April 28, 2026 08:47 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Spotify
Document: Spotify Privacy Policy
Record ID: CA-P-018872
Captured: 2026-04-28 08:47:36 UTC
SHA-256: 62bfd0910e1d9815…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/spotify/spotify-privacy-policy/provision/CA-P-018872/no-automated-decision-making-with-legal-effect/
Accessed: July 13, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Spotify's No Automated Decision-Making with Legal Effect clause do?

This right imposes a meaningful limit on Spotify's use of automated systems by requiring human involvement in decisions that could materially affect users' legal standing or equivalent interests.

How does this clause affect you?

You hold a recognized right to be free from purely automated decisions—including decisions derived from profiling—that carry legal weight or a similarly significant impact on you.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 214 platforms. See the full comparison.

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