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X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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“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.

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[–] AnonymousBaba@lemmy.world 3 points 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.

[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

There's a no for me, dawg.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

vIsIoNaRy!

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Kuro@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Lmao, that's hilarious

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] virtualbriefcase@lemm.ee 1 points 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.

[–] LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Damn i have a Twitter account somewhere. Never uploaded anything at least

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Of course it does

[–] objectionist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

and the further dystopia has finally arrived!

we live in a society

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