Hey, Pandora! Let My Data Go!

20 March 2013 by

Let My Data Go! project

Pandor

I sent an email to Pandora today.

Is there some way I can download a list of my information from Pandora?
– My channels?
– My thumbs?
– My social follows?
– My listening behavior? (what I actually hear, for how long, and when?)

How about some of the music genome conclusions Pandora draws about my listening? The whole “Phil likes songs with a walking tempo in this channel” thing?

I’d like to analyze my data to see what patterns I produce.

All the best.

– Phil

Pandora, Let My Data Go!

Giving my data back will drive usage and subscriptions.

I will trust you more, feel safer that you know what I listen to and that I always have an out.

I will share more and discuss my Pandora experience more because I have more ways to understand my data and myself.

This little bit of power for me could create a lot of value for you.

I live in Oakland, if you’d care to talk sometime. Happy Listening.

Phil Wolff
long time Pandora listener and fan
Strategy Director, Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium
phil@pde.cc or +1-510-444-8234.

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About Phil Wolff

Phil Wolff is strategy director of PDEC, the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, a Small Data NGO. Wolff is a director of the DataPortability Project and co-author of the project's model Portability Policy. He's had management, technology, and marketing roles at Adecco SA, LSI Logic, Bechtel National, Wang Laboratories, Compaq Computer, the City of Long Beach, the State of California, and the U.S. Navy Supply Systems Command. On LinkedIn, ORCID 0000-0002-7815-4750, Quora top 250 of 2012. He holds the PDQ Bach Inauthentic Identity Fellowship at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Phil lives in Adams Point, Oakland, California.