http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/21/technology/spotify-privacy/The new policy allows Spotify to track your location, collect your photos and thumb through your contacts. It can view your Facebook posts and share some of the information it collects with advertisers.
The giant streaming music service, which has 75 million subscribers, says there's a reasonable explanation for all of this.
In a blog post titled "Sorry," Spotify CEO Daniel Ek acknowledged that the new policy "caused a lot of confusion about what kind of information we access and what we do with it."
"We apologize for that," Ek said.
Spotify said the data it can now access helps it to "tailor improved experiences" to customers and build "new personalized products for the future."
