A group of researchers from Tel Aviv University recently discovered how shockingly easy it is to identify a person based on a tiny sample of their musical listening preferences. The gist: When companies such as Spotify use your data to train its AI, they remove all the identifying markers such as your name, account number, or anything else a computer or person could use to immediately identify you. What’s left is the raw data on your listening preferences such as how many times you’ve listened to a track and whether you’ve given a track a thumbs up or not. The…
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