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A failure in Spotify has made publicly known some playlists of users who had initially configured them as private, thus violating the privacy of their subscribers.
Users can choose which playlists are displayed on their profile and hide others they don’t want to share. In case of doing so, the recipients can reproduce, follow and share them with other people, as indicated on their website.
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Despite this measure, the streaming music platform would have begun to reveal some playlists configured as private without the consent of the owner users, as reported by Bleeping Computer.
Several users would have denounced that their private playlists would have been made available to other users “silently”, something that supposes “an absolutely unacceptable breach of privacy”, according to some of them.
This situation follows another very similar one registered last March, when a user proposed a theory in which he suggested that the private lists were not really private, since despite being hidden, they could continue to be shared through a link.
Spotify has not yet made reference to this problem nor has the number of users of the music platform affected by this vulnerability been notified.
Source: Elcomercio
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