1) I don't use Spotify.
2) I know how permissions work on mobile devices, therefore I know exactly why they need access to all this new stuff and I know the permission can be denied if I wanted to
2) I know how permissions work on mobile devices, therefore I know exactly why they need access to all this new stuff and I know the permission can be denied if I wanted to
Those two things are not even remotely related. Your knowledge of the permissions on a mobile device sheds exactly zero light on what is going on in the minds of the Spotify employees who participated in this decision.
Comes down to whether you trust corporations or not.
If they had carefully enumerated why they needed all that data, under what cirumstances the app would actually use it, and limits on what they promised to do with it then people would have been happier.
But no, it basically says you must give access to all the data on your phone, your contacts, your facebook account details, your physical location, and gives them permission to do whatever they like with them including posting them all in public