“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” The revised policy of X(Twitter) is expected to go into effect on September 29, 2023.
The thing is, biometric data is permanent and can’t be changed. If we share that with X, it could mean lifelong privacy risks. And seriously, I can’t think of a single reason why Elon needs to know where I went to high school for data security purposes.
People keep talking about leaving Twitter, but when will they actually do that? I guess they’ll just keep putting up with it, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Bless, they’re always thinking about our safety.
I read identifying purposes and thought they were doing some kind of philosophy experiment on people’s online behavior and their life purposes
The issue here isn’t that Elon wants your biometric data.
The issue is that there will be a bunch of absolute idiots who freely give him their data.
The issue here isn’t that Elon wants your biometric data.
No, that is the issue. Everyone can decide if they want to or not. I assume that most here are smart enough not to.
The issue is that there will be a bunch of absolute idiots who freely give him their data.
If people want to give that info away, then who am I to stop them?
I think it’s naive to frame it as “wanting to give data” but more that they’re allowing themselves to be exploited because many simply don’t even know what’s in the policy, there are many who concede that they can’t do without the platform, and then simply folks who don’t know better. I highly doubt there’s any significant number of people who understand the policy and happily consent even if they could easily give up the platform instead.
So I think they’re both problems. A platform needing data beyond what’s necessary to provide the service AND that most people will either concede defeat or not know better.
That’s not all. The company has further outlined in its upcoming privacy policy it “may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models.”
All artists better get the fuck off that plattform. I doubt he will stop at text.
I imagine that’s going to be policy of most commercial online platforms going forward if the AI boom continues.
User pressure might keep it away from dedicated art sharing platforms, but general purpose social media will end up open season as a source of training data.
