Elon Musk Announced a New Policy
Elon Musk Announced a New Policy
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Elon Musk announced a new policy regarding the collection of
personal information of consumers. Elon Musk has previously introduced and
announced many things on his social media app X, but now Elon Musk has introduced
his new policy which will be effective from September 29. Accordingly, X will
now collect users' personal data. But this policy will be applicable only to
company jobs.
Twitter X
Social media platform X (Twitter's new name) has issued a
new privacy policy regarding users' biometric information, i.e., user's face
image and fingerprints,
among other data shared with the company's job listing platform.
American Broadcasting Organization
According to the report of the American broadcasting
organization CNN, the new privacy policy was announced by X yesterday and will
be applied from September 29. Under the new policy, the personal details and
biometric data of users, i.e., fingerprints
and other information, including photos, may be collected, but biometric data
will only be collected from users who are part of the XK subscription program. maybe
collected and used for your security and identification purposes.'
Job applications
In addition, under the new label of “job applications”, X
says the platform may also collect other data, including your employment and
education. This information may be used to suggest potential job opportunities
to you. The company
also said that it may collect data about a user's 'employment preferences,
skills, abilities, etc.' to match users with potential jobs.
Subscribed to the X Premium Service
The social media platform said that for those who have
subscribed to the X Premium service, the company will require those users to
provide their government-issued ID and a selfie image for verification
purposes. Users may choose
to upload these documents themselves to verify their identity on the platform,
after which X may extract biometric data from these provided documents and
images to verify the user's identity.
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Verify the Identity
"This will also help us verify the identity of users
who have been provided with government-issued IDs, making it impossible for
people to create fake accounts on the platform," the company said.
