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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.
I'm doing my part!
I am so glad I have stopped using reddit entirely. Lemmy feels like a better community anyway, and the decentralized nature of it is awesome.
I have
But so many stay on those shit sites.. ._.
At this point I'm actively evangelizing fedi platforms as functional replacements-
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.
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.
Oh I'm pretty sure he's planning on selling your biometric data to the government.
Definitely with the government on their side. It's a fascist regime man
They're not requiring me to be on Xitter.
Yet.
Sure would be convenient for the government if everyone was forced to have a universal online profile
Judging by the number of people who use Facebook, by far the most people don't care about these things. In my experience it's not even always ignorance, because even if you tell them, they still don't care.
The sheep will ruin the world, by not giving a shit, if they can have a bit of convenience for "free".
“But I cannot leave Facebook, I will miss out on what everyone is faking in their miserable lives” /s
100% this.
I still have my FB amount and barely use it. I need it to search random hotties I see at work
To find selectively misleading info at best, or decidedly fake at worst.
Well, X can fuck right off.
Is there any information on how he plans to obtain biometric data? My assumption was that, with iPhones for example, all biometric data stays on device encrypted via the Secure Enclave. Is that even something X could access?
Biometric data can come from the phone itself, like a camera scanning your retina.
How does he expect to get employment history, though? Does that even show up in a background check?
Twitter needs to be removed from app stores. Stop using Twitter on the website. Certain things should just fail. This is one of those things.
Twitter can fuck off
This was inevitable since Elon’s original shitpost tweet about wanting to buy Twitter and “authenticate all real humans”. Presumably to differentiate them from bots (including AI bots).
Problem I have with this (lol let’s just focus on this one thing right here for a sec) is that there’s absolutely no telling what exceptions Xitter will make and for who. No way to verify it
We can probably expect to see a heck of a lot more of this stuff in future, beyond Xitter and on many other places on the internet, once the scale of the AI problem grows and/or is understood. Perhaps eventually the expectation will be that every piece of posted content will have to be cryptographically signed with a “real human”s identifier(s)
So yeah that’d be the death of the anonymous and pseudonymous internet. It sucks. I don’t see any other way around it, though I will say I’ve already had some decent conversations with entities I know to be characters from LLM output
The death of anon on that website. Xwitter is not The Internet.
Oh, sorry, I didn’t make it clear but that prediction was following on from the third paragraph. Unfortunately I think this is going to be part of a bigger trend
What better way to pay off his massive amount of debt than to sell off everyone’s biometric data.
Lol eat shit Elon. I deleted my account and moved to Mastodon the day he walked into Twitter HQ with that stupid fucking sink.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The social network has updated its privacy policy to include carveouts for “biometric information” and “employment history,” as spotted by Bloomberg.
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.
According to findings from app developer Steve Moser, X plans on rolling out support for passkeys, which can use your device’s fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN to log in to your account.
The platform rolled out the beta of a hiring feature for companies last week and also plans on adding video and audio calls with “no phone number needed.”
The current privacy policy, which you can read here, makes no mention of the collection of biometric data or information related to employment history.
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Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
Illinois, the gem of the heartland!
i like now every change twitter makes there is verge article about it and somehow it get this much upvotes here . i just scrolled for 5 minute now i know twitter shadow banning is back and this lol.
I don't understand where he is going. People say he wants to make a clone of WeChat but we're not in China and I'm sure such a universal application can work in the US or in Europe.
We're not in china but this technocratic dictatorship is happening all around the world, it's just a matter of time. In Brazil we already have a government app which centralizes your info so that you only have access to some public services if you send them things like selfie/id and driver's license/link you bank account/vaccination burocracy shit, etc. and by doing that you get ranks like bronze/silver/gold which then you have access to those public (or free) services.
Not only that but Brazil already named it's CBDC, it's called Drex, in collaboration with Amazon and Ethereum it'll enter the market very soon and It's all part of the world domination plans leaded by those ponerologic psycopaths.
Facebook/Meta already does everything he says he wants to add to 'X', which is mainly some sort of paypal-like payment system.
There's a no for me, dawg.
vIsIoNaRy!
Who the fuck is uploading their resume on twitter? People are dumb AF.
Well, Elon did warn us that X is “more”.
Damn i have a Twitter account somewhere. Never uploaded anything at least
Every day I thank god I left that shithole of a site
Lmao, that's hilarious
As much as I'm not a fan of what Twitter and social media platforms are doing, I think this is non-news with a misleadingly bad sounding headline.
Sure, they'll collect employment history if you use them to search for a job, and sure they'll collect fingerprint hashes and the like if you choose to use that to sign in, but from the sounds if it unless you specifically use those features that they're working on you're not effected.
