Comment on X plans to collect biometric information, job, education history for safety, security, and identification purposes.

Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The issue here isn’t that Elon wants your biometric data.

  No, that is the issue. Everyone can decide if they want to or not. I assume that most here are smart enough not to.

  The issue is that there will be a bunch of absolute idiots who freely give him their data.

  If people want to give that info away, then who am I to stop them?

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  • pjhenry1216@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it's naive to frame it as "wanting to give data" but more that they're allowing themselves to be exploited because many simply don't even know what's in the policy, there are many who concede that they can't do without the platform, and then simply folks who don't know better. I highly doubt there's any significant number of people who understand the policy and happily consent even if they could easily give up the platform instead.

    So I think they're both problems. A platform needing data beyond what's necessary to provide the service AND that most people will either concede defeat or not know better.

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• TheGreatFox@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Idk, sounds like victim blaming to me.

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• s1vgm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As the news says, “Based on your consent”

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  • hellequin67@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So long as you trust that no means no.

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• MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  & then “reality” will be shaped into an even more fucked up hell using that same data.

  Fuck this bullshit.

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