X is expanding the amount of data it collects.

“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.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1892·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        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

    • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          “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

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • J12@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Rogue Metahuman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    128·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    60·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      People will say yes without thinking. It’s a good decision if you don’t care for the longevity of the app.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    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”.

  • hauntology@lemm.eeEnglish
    231·
    1 year ago

    They’ve been doing it all along, they just have to ask permission now because they got sued over it.

  • Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • tacofox@lemm.eeEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    What better way to pay off his massive amount of debt than to sell off everyone’s biometric data.

  • Pattern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      I think that’s why the article mentions the lawsuit. Apart from future collection, it appears X is scanning eyes from photos people post on X and retaining that information.

      • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        So is it just new pics going forward or did it retroactively go back and get Twitter’s stuff too? Or didn’t they like recently “delete” that? This is sus af

  • FrostyCaveman@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    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

  • Gatsby@discuss.onlineEnglish
    152·
    1 year ago

    Lol eat shit Elon. I deleted my account and moved to Mastodon the day he walked into Twitter HQ with that stupid fucking sink.