Spotify Backs Down on ‘Surveillance’ Patent After Continued Protests

Earlier this month, a collection of activists and musicians called on Spotify to abandon its “terrifying patent” for voice-based recommendations. Now, the Stockholm-based streaming service has signaled that it doesn’t have any immediate plans to use the described technology. Spotify filed for the patent in question, “Identification of taste attributes from an audio signal,” in […]
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