Under Spotify Family, a single family member pays the standard premium price of $10, with each additional family member getting a 50 percent discount - paid together in a single bill. If nothing else, we suspect the app asking for the address of a user who knows they are cheating the system will be enough for them to pay for their own account.Spotify on Monday introduced a plan that allows up to five family members to jointly subscribe to the streaming music service's premium service with discounted rates. The problem is, asking for users' location poses privacy concerns which are difficult for Spotify to appease while still collecting the information it needs to successfully run a business and ensure its users are being fair. It also doesn't account for children whose parents are separated and may live far apart.īut we can understand Spotify trying to stamp out instances of users not paying the right amount. But this doesn't account for members of the family travelling, being on holiday, or visiting a second home they might own. In 2018 it began asking users to share their exact location using GPS, but this was abandoned shortly afterwards due to a privacy backlash.Ĭonfirming one's home address poses less of a concern, as Spotify already holds this data as part of your billing information. This is the second time Spotify has tried to crack down on users fraudulently using family plans. The company also reminds users that it reserves the right 'to terminate or suspend access to the Spotify Premium Family service and the Spotify Premium Family account(s) immediately and at any time if you fail to meet the eligibility criteria.'

Spotify family plans can cost as little as $2.50 per person It adds that, upon activation of the family account, users 'will be asked to verify your home address.' Spotify then says, somewhat vaguely, that it 'may from time to time as for re-verification of your home address in order to confirm that you are still meeting the eligibility criteria.' The terms now state that users of the Premium Family Subscription 'must be family members residing at the same address.' The music company's terms and conditions were recently updated, rolling out across the countries Spotify is available in through August and early September. To do this, Spotify now asks users of the family plan to verify their home address using Google Maps.

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