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Re:Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing ... by simias on Friday August 03, 2018 @02:00PM (#17682007)
>Further I don't think anyone understands Identity well enough to be able to provide transitively collected data without breaching confidence of similar third-parties.

I'm obviously not a lawyer or anything but I think that this would be more compeling if Spotify was open source. "You don't want to share this? Well just remove the code then."

Here not only can't I do that but I've been a paying customer of Spotify for years and I had no idea that they even collected 90% of that stuff. In these conditions how can it be argued that I gave them ownership of data I didn't even know existed?

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Re:Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing ... by zerotolerance on Friday August 03, 2018 @06:15PM (#17684058)
Everything is data. Anybody can remember anything they want. You didn't give them anything, they experience the same reality as you when you chose to interact with them. ... It takes two baby...
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