“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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
With the most cartoonishly villainous magalomaniacal narcissist for a CEO, not exactly unexpected.
The media helped build his ego up for years.
What a sad, shameful shit show that was.
Seriously, articles like this one from 2013. Incredibly smart, hardworking, inspiring.
Elon looks and acts a whole lot like the evil cunt business man villain in 5th element Zorg…
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=r0mO6UY6uTg
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
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.
Sure would be convenient for the government if everyone was forced to have a universal online profile
Not a good decision from Elon here.
Well, X can fuck right off.
