Users who “pre-save” an upcoming release to their Spotify accounts may be sharing more personal data with the act’s label than they realize.
To pre-save music, which adds a release to a user’s library as soon as it comes out, Spotify users click through and approve permissions that give the label far more account access than the streaming giant normally grants them — enough to track what they listen to, change what artists they follow and potentially even control their music streaming remotely.