X Updates Terms and Conditions, Can Now Harvest Users’ Biometric Information Including Fingerprint, Face Recognition and Eye Tracking Data, Job and Educational History
September 1st, 2023Via: Daily Mail:
The social media platform formerly known as Twitter can now harvest your biometric data and DNA.
A new update quietly added to the platform’s privacy policy says that X now has permission to harvest its users’ fingerprints, retinal scans, voice and face recognition and keystroke patterns.
The update would mean that anyone who uses fingerprint verification to log in to the app from their phone, posts selfies or videos to the platform or speaks their mind on X ‘spaces’ could see their unique biometric data catalogued by the company.
The new policy, which describes its interest in users’ biometrics as ‘for safety, security, and identification purposes,’ also added the platform’s intent to scrape up data on users’ job history, educational background and ‘job search activity.’
Email is the only social media I’ve ever used, and that only because I can’t buy anything online without an email address. No cell phone either. Staying in touch takes longer, and people are annoyed when they can’t reach me instantly, but it’s worth whatever scraps of privacy I have left. And we don’t have many left, if any. So why do we need yet another site collecting our data/life histories?
And why is Tucker, Mr. Speak-Truth-to-Power, on Twitter when he could have his own site? Is he really Mr. The-Sky-is-Falling, Trust-Me-Ha-Ha-Ha?
I don’t know, but his shows on X/Twitter get millions to hundreds of millions of views. He could be making millions of dollars from it.
I’ve only ever used gab.com, as it was the only social media site I considered joining that didn’t require a phone number. https://www.thedailyexaminer.co.nz/gab-stands-firm-against-censorship-demand-from-new-zealand-government/