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

thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • resketreke@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Besides the IRS who could give them that info?

    The users themselves, in their stupidity, like every single time in the past.

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    • mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Then that data is going to be unreliable, because people will embellish and outright lie when sharing.

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  • pooperNickel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How exactly would a phone camera get a clear image of your retina? I very much doubt anything like this is possible but maybe I’m missing something

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    • mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • pooperNickel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean how would this work though, even assuming that technology hurdle is cleared (definitely doubting it)?

        The Twitter app has to request camera use and then ask the user to do that. What possible benefit would there be for the user?

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  • dept@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    he already teated out a job listings tab so he’ll just collect it from users that way.

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• CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If there’s a photo of you anywhere on The-Platform-Formerly-Known-As-Twitter, then that’s it. That’s biometric data.

  People have this weird idea that “biometric data” needs some special scanning process like in movies. As if some green laser needs to sweep across your body to “collect” biometric data.

  A photo is all that’s needed. That’s it.

  You read these articles that talk about “the dangers of biometrics” (in the context of facial recognition) and they often cite that the database can be hacked and people’s biometric data will get stolen.

  That’s not a concern. Every system that captures biometric data for later use is completely different than the next system. It would be like trying to run an Android app on an iPhone.

  Actually, it’s very much like the pre-IBM days. There were many different computer systems that weren’t compatible with each other. Biometrics is like that, but 100 times more incompatible. Each system needs a ground truth photo to generate the model/template/biometric data.

  So I’ll say it again, if there’s a photo of you on Former-Twitter, even a profile photo, they have your biometrics.

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