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The team looked at the legal documents of Tinder and Spotify because both platforms are grounded on recommendation algorithms that nudge users to either listen to specific songs or to romantically match up with another user. “Despite their powerful influence, there is little concrete detail about how exactly these algorithms work, so we had to use creative ways to find out,” says Dr Morreale. The companies that gather and use our data (usually for their own financial gain) are notably resistant to academic scrutiny they found. The research, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, was done Dr Fabio Morreale, School of Music, and Matt Bartlett and Gauri Prabhakar, School of Law. Researchers at the University of Auckland have endeavored to find out more about how these algorithms work by analysing the legal documents - Terms of Use and Privacy Policies - of Spotify and Tinder. Newswise - Our online and real-world lives are increasingly influenced by algorithmic recommendations based on data gathered about our behavior by companies that are often reluctant to tell us what data they’re gathering how they are using it. News Research News Releases Journal News Medical News Science News Life News Business News Expert Pitch Google Fact Check Research Alert Marketplace News With Video/Audio Multimedia RSS Feeds by

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