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Re:Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ privat... by retSava on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:41AM (#18715862)
If by "publicly available information" you mean the EULA, this can in practice not really be expected to be read and understood by the average user. A wall of text with vague remarks is par for such things. Add to this a constantly moving set of settings that change meaning over time (who can read this post now again?).
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Re:Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ privat... by jonathanehrlich on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:50AM (#18715921)
you don't need to give consent for publicly available information. if we are friends FB and you like a song on spotify and share that on fb publicly, why shouldn't I be able to see that when i'm on FB or Spotify? It makes my experience better on both. That's what instant personalization was. Again, the times failed to talk about that.
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