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

“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.

roguemetahuman,

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.

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

z3rOR0ne, (edited )
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The media helped build his ego up for years.

What a sad, shameful shit show that was.

squiblet,
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Seriously, articles like this one from 2013. Incredibly smart, hardworking, inspiring.

Astroturfed,

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

RojoSanIchiban,

Except Zorg was smart!

(And how dare you compare the looks of Elon to our glorious genius chameleon actor lord and savior Gary Oldman!?!? 🫨)

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

HiddenLayer5,

vIsIoNaRy!

lntl,

Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act

Illinois, the gem of the heartland!

taanegl,
pinkdrunkenelephants,

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

virtualbriefcase,

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.

NathanielThomas,

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

Gatsby,
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Lol eat shit Elon. I deleted my account and moved to Mastodon the day he walked into Twitter HQ with that stupid fucking sink.

Somecall_metim,

Twitter can fuck off

yoz,

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

theragu40,

There’s a no for me, dawg.

AnonymousBaba,

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.

hauntology,

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

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