Link is dead for me. Does anyone know how this works? Is it: Spotify asks how I'm feeling, I click the frowny face, and then it recommends me some sad songs?
> Streaming music platform Spotify has won a patent enabling it to snoop on users’ speech and even background noise in order to gauge emotional state and location type to serve up the appropriate soundtrack. Not creepy at all!
> Spotify has received a patent that will allow it to use speech recognition and sound analysis to assess a user’s demographic attributes, determine their emotional state, and even glean insight into their location. The information will be used – hypothetically, at least – to pick the perfect song to play without requiring any conscious data input from the listener.
Straight out spying, basically. It's what people were warning about with Siri, Cortana or whatever it was called. And it was dismissed with "I don't care, I'm not doing anything illegal and I have nothing to hide".
As to what does that mean, whether the things described in the patent have actually been used or it isn't just a bunch of nonsense, I don't really know.
