X Corp (formerly Twitter) has updated its privacy policy to collect biometric data from premium users to prevent fraud and impersonation.
“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.
Ahh yes, the company owned by Elon Musk, who famously called a diver a “pedophile” for criticizing his coffin submarine idea to rescue some kids. He’s also slashed budgets and cut manpower in all the important departments at twitter. That’s the person I’m most likely to trust with my personal information.
Just for you guys to know, a Saudi teacher got death sentence over tweets, cuz it is linked to his identity, and now Elon even wants more specific data from users? People need to give up on Twitter!
So I downloaded, and from my experience so far on this decentralized social network, it has the ability to replace Twitter for those who care about privacy and are concerned with data breaches.
Using an Anonymous ID, it does not require either an email or a phone number when creating accounts.
It is decentralized, with no central cloud server to store our data.
There is no censorship; no one can ban your account or remove your content.
It connects the world widely, so no single country, government, or person can manipulate the content we see.
The feed/chat space, DMs, voice calls, and fast file/pic transfers are all end-to-end encrypted.
No censorship / unable to delete content? What happens when somebody decides to post illegal content like CP? I know that’s an easy target, but either it has a way to deal with that, or it’s going to attract a very scary crowd, at least as a subset.
Sadly, plenty of idiots will gladly hand over whatever he wants. Even if you COULD trust that he wouldn’t use your data for nefarious purposes, why would you want yet ANOTHER company to have the complete story of your life in a hackable database? Remember the Equifax data breach? Guess most people don’t.
If there’s a photo of you anywhere on The-Platform-Formerly-Known-As-Twitter, then that’s it. That’s biometric data.
People have this weird idea that “biometric data” needs some special scanning process like in movies. As if some green laser needs to sweep across your body to “collect” biometric data.
A photo is all that’s needed. That’s it.
You read these articles that talk about “the dangers of biometrics” (in the context of facial recognition) and they often cite that the database can be hacked and people’s biometric data will get stolen.
That’s not a concern. Every system that captures biometric data for later use is completely different than the next system. It would be like trying to run an Android app on an iPhone.
Actually, it’s very much like the pre-IBM days. There were many different computer systems that weren’t compatible with each other. Biometrics is like that, but 100 times more incompatible. Each system needs a ground truth photo to generate the model/template/biometric data.
So I’ll say it again, if there’s a photo of you on Former-Twitter, even a profile photo, they have your biometrics.
That’s just the price of the internet these days. Gotta click “Accept” on the terms and conditions. Gotta spit into the cup for the DNA tracking. Gotta take a selfie with a drivers license. Gotta send a certified letter from your home address after it’s been notorized by a notary. Gotta send in your social security card so it can be analysed and mailed back to you. Gotta get a full blood panel and dental records sent in for verification. Gotta take a photo of yourself nude and send it into the US copyright office. Gotta install the eye tracking software with the penile insert peripheral when it arrives.
But you know, it’s worth it if I get to send 1000 characters of non-elon-related-text on X.
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Ahh yes, the company owned by Elon Musk, who famously called a diver a “pedophile” for criticizing his coffin submarine idea to rescue some kids. He’s also slashed budgets and cut manpower in all the important departments at twitter. That’s the person I’m most likely to trust with my personal information.
I’m so intrigued about bot biometrics data science!
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This is a great new idiot test. Anyone who buys Musk’s reasoning is so stupid or dishonest that they can’t be trusted with anything.
It’s gotten to the point that I question anyone who links to Twitter now or has an account. Like why? Why not leave already?
I guess we’re going nna keep hammering those nails into the coffin huh?
Not that im complaining. I’ve always hated twitter. I’ll gladly watch the dumpster fire burn.
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Don’t have a Twitter account will never have a Twitter account.
God damn.
These fucks really fucked up the internet (+ the whole society/“reality”).
How do we escape this dystopia at this point?
Is it possible?
Actually, given that biometric data is permanent, it should be very interesting to see the EU get its hands on this.
Bless, they’re always thinking about our safety.
For safety, security purpose??? Bullshit
For safety and security of dictators around the the world, so its easier for them to identify critiques.
Just for you guys to know, a Saudi teacher got death sentence over tweets, cuz it is linked to his identity, and now Elon even wants more specific data from users? People need to give up on Twitter!
Part of the problem is…people were suspended FOR NO REASON & now their data is not recoverable + they can’t delete their accounts.
They (I) are basically trapped.
(unless you live in a country that offers “user protections”…what a concept.)
I can practically hear the EU salivating.
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Apparently, Elon did not get any lesson from the Saudi man’s death at all. Its so important for people to remain anonymous in the digital world.
Try this, I found people talking about this on Lemmy: https://www.alchemy.com/dapps/wiremin
So I downloaded, and from my experience so far on this decentralized social network, it has the ability to replace Twitter for those who care about privacy and are concerned with data breaches.
No censorship / unable to delete content? What happens when somebody decides to post illegal content like CP? I know that’s an easy target, but either it has a way to deal with that, or it’s going to attract a very scary crowd, at least as a subset.
Sadly, plenty of idiots will gladly hand over whatever he wants. Even if you COULD trust that he wouldn’t use your data for nefarious purposes, why would you want yet ANOTHER company to have the complete story of your life in a hackable database? Remember the Equifax data breach? Guess most people don’t.
How exactly do they plan to collect biometric data? In most platforms biometric data remains on device.
Perhaps Elmo will try spinning some sort of WorldCoin style biometric crypto scheme next.
If there’s a photo of you anywhere on The-Platform-Formerly-Known-As-Twitter, then that’s it. That’s biometric data.
People have this weird idea that “biometric data” needs some special scanning process like in movies. As if some green laser needs to sweep across your body to “collect” biometric data.
A photo is all that’s needed. That’s it.
You read these articles that talk about “the dangers of biometrics” (in the context of facial recognition) and they often cite that the database can be hacked and people’s biometric data will get stolen.
That’s not a concern. Every system that captures biometric data for later use is completely different than the next system. It would be like trying to run an Android app on an iPhone.
Actually, it’s very much like the pre-IBM days. There were many different computer systems that weren’t compatible with each other. Biometrics is like that, but 100 times more incompatible. Each system needs a ground truth photo to generate the model/template/biometric data.
So I’ll say it again, if there’s a photo of you on Former-Twitter, even a profile photo, they have your biometrics.
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That’s just the price of the internet these days. Gotta click “Accept” on the terms and conditions. Gotta spit into the cup for the DNA tracking. Gotta take a selfie with a drivers license. Gotta send a certified letter from your home address after it’s been notorized by a notary. Gotta send in your social security card so it can be analysed and mailed back to you. Gotta get a full blood panel and dental records sent in for verification. Gotta take a photo of yourself nude and send it into the US copyright office. Gotta install the eye tracking software with the penile insert peripheral when it arrives.
But you know, it’s worth it if I get to send 1000 characters of non-elon-related-text on X.
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.
& then “reality” will be shaped into an even more fucked up hell using that same data.
Fuck this bullshit.
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As the news says, “Based on your consent”