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A new “breach” of cybersecurity has revealed the personal information of several celebrities, and although it will not allow you to steal your identities, it will allow you … judge them. He “Panama reproduction lists“It details the Spotify song options of notable people who range from vice president JD Vance to the presenter of the Seth Meyers interview program and the technological brothers such as Palmer Luckey. And technically, it was not a violation at all, but a possible lack of understanding around the Spotify privacy settings.
Spotify has always allowed users to make playlists public or private and some even actively seek followers. In addition to that, each cover of the playback shows “public playlist” or “private playlist” on the top. However, the default value for new reproduction lists is “public”, so many users may not be aware that listening habits are available for the world to see them, if someone seems hard enough.
That is exactly what the unknown creator of Panama’s playlists did: simply look for famous people and find their public reproduction lists. Are the results really so interesting? Of course, it’s fun that JD Vance Ha I want it that way In his “Do Cena” playlist, ironic that the reproduction list of the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, presents the Aretha Franklin list I respectAnd very at the tip that we Ag Pam Bondi has Cold as ice In your playlist.
The unstable privacy settings of Spotify filters celebrity songs in ‘Panama of playback’
(Panama reproduction lists)
Other prominent are Silly, broken young By Khalid on the “Hurg” playlist by Sam Bankman-Fried, James Blake’s Retrograde in the “Electoral Eva” reproduction list of Pete Buttigieg and Thousands of millions and billions In the list of “Focus Alpha” of Risk capitalist Mark Andresen. In other words, everything is about waiting given personalities (most of which are not exactly at the level of list A). As The edge Noted, a list was attributed to Kara Swisher, but said it was inaccurate, so it was eliminated.
While a relative bagato compared to other data leaks, Panama’s playlists show Spotify’s loose behavior around the user’s privacy. On the one hand, it makes all its reproduction lists public by default. If you change it to the configuration, you will only affect the reproduction lists created later. Then each one must configure privately individually. Reproduction lists, followers and followers also appear in their profile by default. With that in mind, think of Spotify not only as a transmission but also a social media platform, and treat your privacy accordingly.
