X (ex-Twitter)’s privacy policy is being updated, and there’s a reason it’s prettier
The two attached screenshots are from (the English-language version of) MuskCo’s new privacy policy, which will take effect on 29 September 2023: https://twitter.com/privacy
Because of the way everything’s hidden in folded-up sections, which you can only see one at a time, it’s actually quite hard to read, despite MuskCo’s alleged efforts to make it ‘short and easy to understand’
(The current version is still accessible via the handy ‘Download PDF’ button)
Changes that might make you think twice about continuing to participate in MuskCo’s dystopian social network:
⚠️ In Section 1.1 (first screenshot), information MuskCo may collect from users now includes
• your biometric information (‘based on your consent’) – why?
• ‘employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement’ – is this the LinkedIn-ification of MuskCo?
⚠️ In Section 2.1 (second screenshot), in order to ‘[o]perate, improve and personalize [their] services’, MuskCo may now use any of your data to train their machine learning or (so-called) artificial intelligence models
I’m not sure how all this will play out in Europe, where there are semi-decent data protection laws, but wherever you live, if you’re still a MuskCo customer, now feels like a(nother) great opportunity to get out!