Spotify has been fined $5.4 million for violating GDPR knowledge guidelines

A Swedish regulator has fined SEK 58 million ($5.4 million) after that the corporate had violated the European Union’s Basic Knowledge Safety Regulation (). The problem issues how Spotify handles customers’ private knowledge and its prospects’ entry to the data.

Advocacy group Noyb, which is led by privateness campaigner Max Schrems, filed a criticism towards Spotify and different main tech firms . Within the criticism, Noyb asserted that, amongst different points, Spotify did not present all private knowledge to customers upon request and that it did not disclose the explanations for processing such data.

The Swedish Authority for Privateness Safety (IMY) discovered that whereas Spotify provides customers private knowledge that it processes upon request, it “doesn’t inform clearly sufficient about how this knowledge is utilized by the corporate.” It mentioned that Spotify must be extra clear “about how and for what functions people’ private knowledge is dealt with.” The dearth of readability meant that “it has been tough for people to grasp how their private knowledge is processed and to verify whether or not the dealing with of their private knowledge is lawful,” the IMY added.

The regulator mentioned it thought of the problems to be “a low stage of seriousness” and famous Spotify, has taken steps to resolve them. The IMY decided the nice based mostly on these components together with Spotify’s income and variety of customers. It famous that it made the choice with the assistance of different EU knowledge safety authorities, on condition that Spotify has customers in lots of international locations.

“Spotify presents all customers complete details about how private knowledge is processed,” the corporate, which is predicated in Sweden, instructed in a press release. It mentioned the regulator “discovered solely minor areas of our course of they consider want enchancment. Nonetheless, we don’t agree with the choice and plan to file an attraction.