Overview

• The anonymously run Panama Playlists site remains live and has published Spotify listening data for politicians, journalists and tech executives.
• Several individuals featured on the site, including Mike Isaac, Taylor Lorenz, Joanna Stern, Casey Newton and Palmer Luckey, have confirmed the accuracy of their playlists.
• Some listed figures, such as Kara Swisher, have disputed the playlists attributed to them, underscoring questions about data veracity.
• Spotify’s default settings make all user profiles and playlists public by default and require users to manually privatize each playlist without retroactive effect.
• Privacy experts warn that similar default configurations have previously exposed personal information and call for platforms to adopt stronger privacy safeguards.