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?
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It is the most reliable way (currently) to identify people.
That's just a smoke screen. The website benefits from bots, and there are considerably less intrusive ways to verify people. We're not talking about a high security clearance government website here. Twitter is where people go to post inane ramblings.
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.
vIsIoNaRy!
Well, Elon did warn us that X is “more”.
Of course it does
Who the fuck is uploading their resume on twitter? People are dumb AF.
Lmao, that's hilarious
X corp, a good name for a devil company ruled by a devil person
Every day I thank god I left that shithole of a site
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.
and the further dystopia has finally arrived!
we live in a society