“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the privacy policy reads. It doesn’t include any details on what kind of biometric information this includes — or how X plans to collect it — but it typically involves fingerprints, iris patterns, or facial features.
X Corp. was named in a proposed class action lawsuit in July over claims that its data collection violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. The lawsuit alleges that X “has not adequately informed individuals” that it “collects and/or stores their biometric identifiers in every photograph containing a face” that’s uploaded to the platform.
Not a good decision from Elon here.
People will say yes without thinking. It’s a good decision if you don’t care for the longevity of the app.
Lmao, that’s hilarious
He’s trying to build the US equivalent of WeChat without having the government on his side.
Aaaand now I just have a new worst fear.
Definitely with the government on their side. It’s a fascist regime man
They’re not requiring me to be on Xitter.
Yet.
Sure would be convenient for the government if everyone was forced to have a universal online profile
Just ask Mr. Pooh
Oh I’m pretty sure he’s planning on selling your biometric data to the government.
Of course it does
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The social network has updated its privacy policy to include carveouts for “biometric information” and “employment history,” as spotted by Bloomberg.
X Corp. was named in a proposed class action lawsuit in July over claims that its data collection violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The lawsuit alleges that X “has not adequately informed individuals” that it “collects and/or stores their biometric identifiers in every photograph containing a face” that’s uploaded to the platform.
According to findings from app developer Steve Moser, X plans on rolling out support for passkeys, which can use your device’s fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN to log in to your account.
The platform rolled out the beta of a hiring feature for companies last week and also plans on adding video and audio calls with “no phone number needed.”
The current privacy policy, which you can read here, makes no mention of the collection of biometric data or information related to employment history.
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X Corp is slowly moving to fulfill any evil corp prophesy that we thought are only limited to fictional writing. The name (X Corp) too is straight out of some dystopian novel.
With the most cartoonishly villainous magalomaniacal narcissist for a CEO, not exactly unexpected.
The media helped build his ego up for years.
What a sad, shameful shit show that was.
Elon looks and acts a whole lot like the evil cunt business man villain in 5th element Zorg…
Except Zorg was smart!
(And how dare you compare the looks of Elon to our glorious genius chameleon actor lord and savior Gary Oldman!?!? 🫨)
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but….why? of all the things to care about with that dying husk of a platform, what could suddenly make biometric information such an interest to them?
The same reasons he cares about anything, more money and more power. I’m sure there’s a lot of unscrupulous buyers for such data.
If he’s going to make an ‘American WeChat’ then having this data is necessary. If you aren’t familiar with WeChat it’s a social media app from China that’s basically the default application for banking, videos, posts, 2FA, etc. It’s hugely popular in China. Of course, whether or not he should even be allowed to get this info or how viable making an American WeChat is, is a completely different story.
Why the fuck would anyone want their social media tied to their banking? Data leaks are already harmful enough without that link.
There was this app about 12 years ago which was like ‘foursqaure for payments!’ It would advertise ‘blahblah just paid $55 at some lame restaurant’. It seemed like an awful idea and it died, but… currently, Venmo does that.
Groupon?
It was some minor company that had a bit of hype but never got big, with a name like Bloingo or something.
Well simply put, he saw how successful WeChat was in China and believes that this success can be replicated in the States. Imagine. Having one app for banking, job applications, messaging your friends and following your favourite content creators? And then for those pesky other accounts you could have a password manager on X? Why even have another app? And although it isn’t in the cards right now ideally he’ll want integration with the government, as that’s how WeChat can get all it’s records for people (and I further guess he’s banking on a Trump government to help him with that).
(yes I realize how horrible this sounds haha, just trying to illustrate how Musk sees this)
Yes, that sounds like a dystopian nightmare, especially in the hands of the world’s 2nd biggest emotionally imbalanced man-child.
It is the most reliable way (currently) to identify people.
That’s just a smoke screen. The website benefits from bots, and there are considerably less intrusive ways to verify people. We’re not talking about a high security clearance government website here. Twitter is where people go to post inane ramblings.
Pretty sure LinkedIn already called dibs on selling our employment data.
Twitter needs to be removed from app stores. Stop using Twitter on the website. Certain things should just fail. This is one of those things.
Well, X can fuck right off.
I don’t understand where he is going. People say he wants to make a clone of WeChat but we’re not in China and I’m sure such a universal application can work in the US or in Europe.
We’re not in china but this technocratic dictatorship is happening all around the world, it’s just a matter of time. In Brazil we already have a government app which centralizes your info so that you only have access to some public services if you send them things like selfie/id and driver’s license/link you bank account/vaccination burocracy shit, etc. and by doing that you get ranks like bronze/silver/gold which then you have access to those public (or free) services.
Not only that but Brazil already named it’s CBDC, it’s called Drex, in collaboration with Amazon and Ethereum it’ll enter the market very soon and It’s all part of the world domination plans leaded by those ponerologic psycopaths.
Facebook/Meta already does everything he says he wants to add to ‘X’, which is mainly some sort of paypal-like payment system.
Stop using Twitter.
Stop using Reddit.
Stop using FaceBook.
Stop using Instagram.
Just stop, and they will have to stop.
The wheels don’t turn if the rats stop racing.
I have
But so many stay on those shit sites… ._.
I am so glad I have stopped using reddit entirely. Lemmy feels like a better community anyway, and the decentralized nature of it is awesome.
I’m doing my part!
Has anybody here tried to file a GDPR deletion request with Twitter?
I have never used Twitter, so no.
Got the list down to only Twitter. I wish Lemmy had more local users otherwise I’d ditch Twitter.
But I do my part by blocking advertisements. If I spend 20 minutes blocking ads I won’t see any for a few weeks.
Mastodon instead of twitter maybe?
You forgot to mention the big dogs. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft… much harder to escape… and we need to.
But yeah, Musk, Zuck, and Huff can fuck off.
You’re never going to get the corps to stop sucking each other off. Microsoft is inescapable in business sectors as of right now. Doing without Amazon or Google requires a moderate amount of willpower. The biggest issue is the sheer number of people who just don’t give a fuck.
“Babe, these corporations want to enslave our children, please stop buying the coffee”
“I can’t its so good, they won’t imprison our children.”
Fucking shoot me.
Well, Elon did warn us that X is “more”.
and the further dystopia has finally arrived!
we live in a society
