Would you trust Elon Musk with your biometric data?
With a history of complying with requests from authoritarian regimes, Musk's record will give human rights defenders and marginalised communities cause for alarm.
Biometric data is permanent and unchangeable to a person. If it gets shared, it can mean lifelong #privacy impacts.
A prospect made ever more threatening without knowing how long the data will be retained, how it's secured, or if it's ever deleted.
@openrightsgroup
This is a stupid article which will cause people to think, incorrectly, that TouchID / FaceID makes biometric data available to apps.
It does not.
By sharing biometric data, you're not just impacting your own life, you're impacting the privacy of all your friends and family.
Ancestry.com DNA samples was used to find long-dead serial killers through the DNA of relatives.
Last will & testaments have been negated through blood tests
You can be guaranteed that your social media profile is being linked to your friends, family, employment, customers, clubs, volunteer organizations, churches and most of all voting patterns.
@openrightsgroup
This has a solution. We need law makers to repeal the immunity internet companies currently enjoy from liability for hoarding our data, misusing our data, and letting our data get stolen or passed on. Our data is not their asset to monetize, or shouldn't be, and some large settlement class action lawsuits about data theft would deter them from saving everything. Saving fingerprints, face prints, signatures, needs a time limit.
@openrightsgroup What I think has been demonstrsted over the last several months is that there is no indignity or invasion of privacy that Twitter users will not endure. Do not expect giving Elon their biometric data will matter to them at all.
If they choose to use a platform that harbors Nazis, invited by a Nazi, threatens a Jewish organization, and encourages Nazis to expel that organization, then they shouldn't regret it afterward because they didn't know, because they believed everything was fine, and thought it wasn't a Nazi platform.
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