00:00What does your Apple Music or Spotify account say about you?
00:05Afrobeats, hot girl, jazz, praise break, workout.
00:11Okay, well, mine is a little all over the place, so who knows what people would think about me.
00:16But a site called Panama Playlist claims it has found the Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists.
00:23And it's making all the potentially embarrassing details public.
00:30Backstreet Boys, Justin Bieber, and One Direction.
00:45If the claims are true, these are some of the songs saved in playlists on Vice President J.D. Vance's Spotify profile.
00:52And he's just one of many.
00:54The anonymous creator of Panama Playlist tells the New York Post they monitored these accounts for months, using publicly available information to try and verify.
01:04The creator stresses, though, that they are not affiliated with Spotify.
01:09Some profiles, like Attorney General Pam Bondi's, even used their real names as their display name.
01:14But anyone could do that, right?
01:16The researcher says a playlist called John gave them more confidence.
01:21Bondi's long-term partner is named John Wakefield, and she has an old shared playlist with a Spotify user named John Wakefield.
01:29Press Secretary Caroline Levitt's Baby Shower Playlist was created one month before her son was born.
01:35That Missy Elliott song was at one point on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's My Shazam Tracks playlist.
01:46But as of Monday, that profile appears to have been deleted or made private.
01:51Similarly, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had a playlist called Galentines that also came from a profile no longer available as of Monday.
02:00Spotify tells The Independent, if the researcher behind Panama Playlist is using a Spotify account to find information from public playlists, that would be a violation of their terms of use.
02:12We reached out to the researcher for comment with no response at the time of publication.
02:17But for now, people on the Internet just seem to be making jokes and having fun looking into the lives of public figures through music.
02:25With Straight Arrow News, I'm Kennedy Felton.
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