Dear Spotify : don’t manipulate our emotions for profit
▻https://www.accessnow.org/spotify-tech-emotion-manipulation
Today, Access Now sent a letter to Spotify calling on the company to abandon the technology underlying its recently granted speech-recognition patent because it presents grave privacy and security concerns. The always-on technology claims to be able to detect, among other things, “emotional state, gender, age, or accent” to recommend music. Access Now’s major concerns with the technology are : Emotion manipulation : Monitoring emotional state, and making recommendations based on it, puts (...)
