X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Arkarian@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m doing my part!

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  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have

    But so many stay on those shit sites… ._.

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    • BeautifulMind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At this point I’m actively evangelizing fedi platforms as functional replacements-

      • Insta-> pixelfed
      • birdsite-> mastadon/firefish/misskey
      • fb-> friendica
      • reddit-> lemmy etc

      The only thing meta has that’s worth anything to me is… my friends and family all have accounts there, it’s the only means I have of staying in touch with some of them. If I convince half of them to migrate it’s a win-win

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  • J12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Got the list down to only Twitter. I wish Lemmy had more local users otherwise I’d ditch Twitter.

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    • baked_tea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mastodon instead of twitter maybe?

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• roguemetahuman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Endorkend@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With the most cartoonishly villainous magalomaniacal narcissist for a CEO, not exactly unexpected.

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  • Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Elon looks and acts a whole lot like the evil cunt business man villain in 5th element Zorg…

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    • RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    without having the government on his side.

    Why do you think they haven’t?

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• xc2215x@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not a good decision from Elon here.

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People will say yes without thinking. It’s a good decision if you don’t care for the longevity of the app.

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• Fafner@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, X can fuck right off.

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Judging buy the number of people who use Facebook, by far the most people don’t care about these things. In my experience it’s not even always ignorance, because even if you tell them, they still don’t care.

  The sheep will ruin the world, by not giving a shit, if they can have a bit of convenience for “free”.

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  • Ronno@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “But I cannot leave Facebook, I will miss out on what everyone is faking in their miserable lives” /s

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly.

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  • yoz@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    100% this.

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  • lustrum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I still have my FB amount and barely use it. I need it to search random hotties I see at work

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To find selectively misleading info at best, or decidedly fake at worst.

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• hauntology@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’ve been doing it all along, they just have to ask permission now because they got sued over it.

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• Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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• tacofox@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What better way to pay off his massive amount of debt than to sell off everyone’s biometric data.

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• NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I didn’t even like twitter before it was taken over by a megalomaniac, let alone the garbage site it’s become

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• Gatsby@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol eat shit Elon. I moved to Mastodon the day he walked in the door to Twitter HQ with that stupid fucking sink.

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• FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This was inevitable since Elon’s original shitpost tweet about wanting to buy Twitter and “authenticate all real humans”. Presumably to differentiate them from bots (including AI bots).

  Problem I have with this (lol let’s just focus on this one thing right here for a sec) is that there’s absolutely no telling what exceptions Xitter will make and for who. No way to verify it

  We can probably expect to see a heck of a lot more of this stuff in future. Perhaps eventually the expectation will be that every piece of posted content will have to be cryptographically signed with a “real human”s identifier(s)

  So yeah that’d be the death of the anonymous and pseudonymous internet. It sucks. I don’t see any other way around it, though I will say I’ve already had some decent conversations with entities I know to be characters from LLM output

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• Pattern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there any information on how he plans to obtain biometric data? My assumption was that, with iPhones for example, all biometric data stays on device encrypted via the Secure Enclave. Is that even something X could access?

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  • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think that’s why the article mentions the lawsuit. Apart from future collection, it appears X is scanning eyes from photos people post on X and retaining that information.

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    • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So is it just new pics going forward or did it retroactively go back and get Twitter’s stuff too? Or didn’t they like recently “delete” that? This is sus af

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  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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  The original article contains 302 words, the summary contains 159 words. Saved 47%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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• Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Twitter can fuck off

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• DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not worried about Twitter. I’m worried about other platforms following suit. What if we get to the point where the power company wants your biometric data before they’ll let you pay your bill?

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  • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I already feel like we’re close with having to add your bank account information into some online account. (I kid, I kid)

    But there is evidence of this becoming more pervasive over time. One thing that made me buy a house instead of continuing to rent is I actually looked at the lease and they wanted to store biometric data on my fucking dog supposedly so they could tell whose dog was leaving what poops on the ground over at the park. 🙄

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  • spez_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s called X

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• alianne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pretty sure LinkedIn already called dibs on selling our employment data.

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nnnnnnnnnnnnnn…

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• theragu40@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s a no for me, dawg.

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• AnonymousBaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  i like now every change twitter makes there is verge article about it and somehow it get this much upvotes here . i just scrolled for 5 minute now i know twitter shadow banning is back and this lol.

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• glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Facebook/Meta already does everything he says he wants to add to 'X', which is mainly some sort of paypal-like payment system.

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• lycanrising@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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?

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  • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is the most reliable way (currently) to identify people.

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• yoz@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who the fuck is uploading their resume on twitter? People are dumb AF.

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• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Of course it does

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• MxM111@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, Elon did warn us that X is “more”.

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• Kuro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lmao, that’s hilarious

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• chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  X corp, a good name for a devil company ruled by a devil person

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• pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Every day I thank god I left that shithole of a site

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• virtualbriefcase@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As much as I’m not a fan of what Twitter and social media platforms are doing, I think this is non-news with a misleadingly bad sounding headline.

  Sure, they’ll collect employment history if you use them to search for a job, and sure they’ll collect fingerprint hashes and the like if you choose to use that to sign in, but from the sounds if it unless you specifically use those features that they’re working on you’re not effected.

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• objectionist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  and the further dystopia has finally arrived!

  we live in a society

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