There’s no reason to freak out about Spotify’s new privacy policy

People have been up in arms about Spotify’s recent privacy policy update after Wired painted it as an “eerie” agreement that “you can’t do squat about,” which several other publications echoed. However, if you actually look at the update you’ll notice that, while Spotify made the mistake of not being more clear about when it will ask for information and how it will use it, the company did make it clear that it would ask, not just take. Even so, Spotify’s CEO has personally apologized for the whole incident in a recent blog post.