X plans to collect biometric information, job, education history for safety, security, and identification purposes.

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.

• 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.

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.)

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 guys: http://wiremin.org/

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 (E2EE).

For safety and security of dictators around the the world, so its easier for them to identify critiques.

Security is what pretty much all companies use when collecting data. It's designed to stop you dead. Many people have been conditioned to see "security" as necessary.

Calls may be recorded for security and training purposes.

Think of the children

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.

Are you trying to summon Louis Rossmann?

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.

Just put one of your left foot fingers. Fuck'em

They'll simply ask for it and people will give it in order to keep using the platform.

Google Ads asked me (a private individual) to provide my drivers license or passport in order to verify an organization's Google Ads account, or else the account will be suspended. I understand verifying the organization via governed registration records, that makes sense. But requiring an emoloyee or volunteer's passport?

The account is just going to get suspended.

You could collect information like the pattern on someone's retina using the camera.

A better question is how they could get your job history. Besides the IRS who could give them that info?

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.

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?

Idk, sounds like victim blaming to me.

& then "reality" will be shaped into an even more fucked up hell using that same data.

Fuck this bullshit.

As the news says, "Based on your consent"

As the news says, “Based on your consent”

A large amount of people I know said that, and actually did it. For the rest, the alternatives are not big enough to farm clicks off ragebait and AI "art"

He's also friends with Putin & other autocrats.

What could go wrong?

Oh yeah...Elon has been known to ban every antifascist. & he wants access to all of their information.

Remember the Equifax data breach?

Remember how we sent every C-level to prison for twenty years and fined the company out of existence? lol jk corporations are infallible and it's our fault our data was held by a private company without our consent.

Ooh, are they gonna come fellate me?

Big no

Same I deleted by decades old account over this issue.

There was a thread on that other news discussion site where users were claiming they were being asked to upload a government id photo before they could delete their account. I found that not to be the case.

Still better safe than sorry, it was time to get off the platform and this issue highlighted that.

Yea that’s the thing with lifelong biometric data… they could be “identifying” something else entirely at any point now or in the future.

Big no

Want X to have a stool sample too?

And bury our heads in the sand? Ignoring the situation won't help.

Sub? That's big tech talk!