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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mastodon instead of twitter maybe?
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.
With the most cartoonishly villainous magalomaniacal narcissist for a CEO, not exactly unexpected.
The media helped build his ego up for years.
What a sad, shameful shit show that was.
Elon looks and acts a whole lot like the evil cunt business man villain in 5th element Zorg.....
Except Zorg was smart!
(And how dare you compare the looks of Elon to our glorious genius chameleon actor lord and savior Gary Oldman!?!? 🫨)
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.
without having the government on his side.
Why do you think they haven't?
Not a good decision from Elon here.
People will say yes without thinking. It’s a good decision if you don’t care for the longevity of the app.
Well, X can fuck right off.
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
They've been doing it all along, they just have to ask permission now because they got sued over it.
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.
What better way to pay off his massive amount of debt than to sell off everyone’s biometric data.
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?
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.
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
Lol eat shit Elon. I deleted my account and moved to Mastodon the day he walked into Twitter HQ with that stupid fucking sink.
Twitter can fuck off
I'm not worried about Twitter. I'm worried about other platforms following suit. What if we get to the point where the power company wants your biometric data before they'll let you pay your bill?
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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Pretty sure LinkedIn already called dibs on selling our employment data.
Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
Illinois, the gem of the heartland!
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.
but….why? of all the things to care about with that dying husk of a platform, what could suddenly make biometric information such an interest to them?
If he's going to make an 'American WeChat' then having this data is necessary. If you aren't familiar with WeChat it's a social media app from China that's basically the default application for banking, videos, posts, 2FA, etc. It's hugely popular in China. Of course, whether or not he should even be allowed to get this info or how viable making an American WeChat is, is a completely different story.
Why the fuck would anyone want their social media tied to their banking? Data leaks are already harmful enough without that link.
Well simply put, he saw how successful WeChat was in China and believes that this success can be replicated in the States. Imagine. Having one app for banking, job applications, messaging your friends and following your favourite content creators? And then for those pesky other accounts you could have a password manager on X? Why even have another app? And although it isn't in the cards right now ideally he'll want integration with the government, as that's how WeChat can get all it's records for people (and I further guess he's banking on a Trump government to help him with that).
(yes I realize how horrible this sounds haha, just trying to illustrate how Musk sees this)
Yes, that sounds like a dystopian nightmare, especially in the hands of the world's 2nd biggest emotionally imbalanced man-child.
There was this app about 12 years ago which was like 'foursqaure for payments!' It would advertise 'blahblah just paid $55 at some lame restaurant'. It seemed like an awful idea and it died, but... currently, Venmo does that.
The same reasons he cares about anything, more money and more power. I'm sure there's a lot of unscrupulous buyers for such data.
