Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing every interaction

Re:Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing ... by blaerk on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:30PM (#17681735)

It's kind of weird (and worrying tbh) that the user doesn't get _all_ the data by default. Shouldn't all the data be sent upon request, is there a clause saying 'only after nagging the TRUE data will be sent?

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Re:Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing ... by amarkov on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:44PM (#17681873)

There's a sense in which summary views are the real data. If I asked Spotify to share my data, and they just sent me a 250 MB file of every interaction they've ever recorded, I would conclude they're trying to obfuscate which data they actually use and how they use it.

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Re:Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing ... by patmcguire on Friday August 03, 2018 @02:51PM (#17682534)

Yeah. If Netflix sends me every byte I've ever viewed, that's pretty useless.

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Re:Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing ... by cwkoss on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:20PM (#17683292)

Exhaustive list of your data (sorted, redundant copies not included):

0x00

0x01

0x02

0x03

...

0xFE

0xFF

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Re:Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing ... by adtac on Saturday August 04, 2018 @05:47AM (#17686157)

I think just 0 and 1 would suffice ;)

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Re:Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing ... by adtac on Saturday August 04, 2018 @05:47AM (#17686154)

Easiest alternative to ripping video lol. And it's legal!

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Re:Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing ... by olejorgenb on Friday August 03, 2018 @06:21PM (#17684093)

The default export only include the last 90 days so it's not just limited in details.

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