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X now wants your biometric data, as well as your job and education history for ‘safety, security, and identification purposes’::The company said it may use user data to train A.I. models.

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[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I believe the Chinese already have it.

Apple isn't far behind. Transferring funds, iPhones have biometric authentication, GPS in every phone, account mandated. The future is handed to our technical overlords on a platter for a bit of convenience.

[-] gooey@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

They do, it's called Weibo and Elon has explicitly said he's trying to make an app like it

[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you, that was the name.

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