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  1. ListenBrainz
  2. LB-200

User privacy regarding listening data

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      Sorry if this is potentially a duplicate issue, or best discussed elsewhere, but I hope that ListenBrainz will take steps to protect user privacy when exposing listening data.

      Listening data is in some ways highly personal, it's a timestamped log of activity, even if the activities are "this person listened to a song at this time".

      The following options might be good to think about:

      • Allowing users to keep their listens private, possibly while still allowing their listens to be public in an anonymized formĀ 
      • Allowing users to make their listens available but not in real time, possibly only after a delay of a few days
      • Allowing users to make their listens available without full timestamp resolution. For example, with the resolution reduced to the day, but not the hour or minute

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            rodarmor Casey Rodarmor
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