“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.
Every day I thank god I left that shithole of a site
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.
without having the government on his side.
Why do you think they haven’t?
Oh I’m pretty sure he’s planning on selling your biometric data to the government.
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
Of course it does
Who the fuck is uploading their resume on twitter? People are dumb AF.
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, beyond Xitter and on many other places on the internet, once the scale of the AI problem grows and/or is understood. 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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The death of anon on that website. Xwitter is not The Internet.
Oh, sorry, I didn’t make it clear but that prediction was following on from the third paragraph. Unfortunately I think this is going to be part of a bigger trend
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.
Lol eat shit Elon. I deleted my account and moved to Mastodon the day he walked into Twitter HQ with that stupid fucking sink.
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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 am so glad I have stopped using reddit entirely. Lemmy feels like a better community anyway, and the decentralized nature of it is awesome.
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.
“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.”
“‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.”
Edit: Added the quote
I have
But so many stay on those shit sites… ._.
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
I’m doing my part!
Has anybody here tried to file a GDPR deletion request with Twitter?
I have never used Twitter, so no.
Judging by 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”.
I still have my FB amount and barely use it. I need it to search random hotties I see at work
To find selectively misleading info at best, or decidedly fake at worst.
100% this.
“But I cannot leave Facebook, I will miss out on what everyone is faking in their miserable lives” /s
Exactly.
Well, Elon did warn us that X is “more”.
Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
Illinois, the gem of the heartland!
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?
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.
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.
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.
Edit: I found it, it was called Blippy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blippy
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.
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.
What better way to pay off his massive amount of debt than to sell off everyone’s biometric data.
Pretty sure LinkedIn already called dibs on selling our employment data.
