Spotify has just announced the creation of a Safety Advisory Board whose goal is to help the platform ” change its policies around key areas like digital security and hateful content.
Spotify wants to be more transparent
” Over the past few months, Spotify has worked to be more transparent about its security efforts. In January, we published our Platform Rules and took steps to ensure that creators on our platform review and adhere to them. Those were first steps forward, and today we’re unveiling another: our all-new Spotify Security Advisory Board – the first such board at a major audio company. “, explains the Swedish giant in a blog post.
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This Council is made up of experts and organizations with deep expertise in security and other related fields. So far, it has 18 experts, including representatives from the Washington DC civil rights group the Center for Democracy & Technology, the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and the Institute for Technology and society in Brazil.
“Bhile Spotify has sought input from many of these founding members for years, we are excited to further expand and make our security partnerships more transparent. As our product continues to grow and evolve, board members will grow and evolve with it. “, provides the music streaming service.
An Advisory Board
However, it should be noted that this Council will simply be advisory. Concretely, its members will advise Spotify in the context of the development of its products and policies and its reflection on emerging issues, but the company will have the right not to apply the latter’s recommendations.
“ The idea is to bring in these world-renowned experts, many of whom have been in this field for several years, to build a relationship with them. Instead, we meet with them on a fairly regular basis, so we can be much more proactive about how we think about these issues across the business. said Dustee Jenkins, global head of public affairs at Spotify.
The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, very popular in the United States, was at the heart of a lively controversy across the Atlantic in 2021. Photograph: Jonathan Velasquez / Unsplash
A very controversial year 2021
If Spotify assures that the Council was not set up following a particular event, it should not be forgotten that the service created controversy in 2021 after Joe Rogan, the host of one of the most popular podcasts popular across the Atlantic, has been accused of spreading false information about the pandemic. Despite this, the platform continues to grow. It recorded an excellent first quarter of 2022 and now has more than 422 million monthly active users, and aims to reach one billion users by 2030.
The establishment of such a council is not unprecedented in the world of tech. A few years ago, Meta introduced its Supervisory Board which, unlike the body presented by Spotify, has the power to recommend the deletion of accounts, as was the case for Donald Trump for example.