Spotify’s Privacy Policies, for instance, show that the company collects much more personal information than it did in its early years, including new types of data. Their research did reveal several insights. It makes it difficult for academic researchers and certainly for the average user,” says Dr Morreale. “They tend toward the legalistic and vague, inhibiting the ability of outsiders to properly scrutinise the companies’ algorithms and their relationship with users. Companies are increasingly required to let users know what data is being collected, yet the length and language of the legal documents could not be described as user-friendly. The researchers analysed various iterations of the legal documents over the past decade. “People might think they’re more benign, but they are still highly influential.” “They have been largely overlooked, compared to bigger tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Tik Tok etc who have faced more scrutiny” he says. The team looked at the legal documents of Tinder and Spotify because both platforms are grounded on recommendation algorithms that nudge users to either listen to specific songs or to romantically match up with another user. “Despite their powerful influence, there is little concrete detail about how exactly these algorithms work, so we had to use creative ways to find out,” says Dr Morreale. The companies that gather and use our data (usually for their own financial gain) are notably resistant to academic scrutiny they found. The research, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, was done Dr Fabio Morreale, School of Music, and Matt Bartlett and Gauri Prabhakar, School of Law. Researchers at the University of Auckland have endeavored to find out more about how these algorithms work by analysing the legal documents - Terms of Use and Privacy Policies - of Spotify and Tinder. Newswise - Our online and real-world lives are increasingly influenced by algorithmic recommendations based on data gathered about our behavior by companies that are often reluctant to tell us what data they’re gathering how they are using it. News Research News Releases Journal News Medical News Science News Life News Business News Expert Pitch Google Fact Check Research Alert Marketplace News With Video/Audio Multimedia RSS Feeds by
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