So, after discussion on irc with seb128 and tedg is seems this is
basically:

- indicator-sound in the user's session will export currently playing song 
information using accountsservice
- indicator-sound in the greeter will display it, and will allow controlling it 
via the "session broadcast service" 
(http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/unity-greeter-session-broadcast/trunk.14.04/view/head:/README)
- indicator-sound in the user's session will respond to events from the greeter

This exposes user data to the greeter, mainly song titles. Since it is
assumed that the song titles that are displayed are only what is
currently playing, the amount of information that is being leaked is
minimal.

I agree to having this information be available to the greeter if the
following conditions are met:

1- if the song is no longer _currently_ playing, indicator-sound in the user 
session needs to clear-out the song information from accounts service
2- The user needs to have a privacy control available that will allow them to 
turn off song information being sent to accounts service, and turn off 
indicator-sound from responding to greeter events (this can either be exposed 
or not in the gui as the design team prefers, as long as a setting _is_ 
available)

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