On April 15, 2021, Spotify replied to Access Now’s letter, stating that the company “has never implemented the technology described in the patent in any of our products and we have no plans to do so.” ![]() On April 2, 2021, Access Now sent a letter to Spotify calling on the company to abandon the technology in the patent. This technology is dangerous, a violation of privacy and other human rights, and should not be implemented by Spotify or any other company. Spotify claims that the technology can detect, among other things, “emotional state, gender, age, or accent” to recommend music. Today, Access Now, Fight for the Future, Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, and a coalition of over 180 musicians and human rights organizations from around the world sent a letter to Spotify calling on the company to make a public commitment to never use, license, sell, or monetize its new speech-recognition patent technology. Access Now will continue to pressure Spotify and other companies that develop voice-recognition technologies to not invest in or deploy digital tools that violate human rights. UPDATE: Spotify failed to respond to the coalition letter by the May 18 deadline.
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