Will we have to show our credentials soon to be able to use Twitter? In any case, the social network, now called X, will soon collect biometric data from its users, that is, data related to a person’s identity, such as fingerprints or facial features.
In its new privacy policy, accessible on your site Internet and pointed out by Bloomberg, Twitter now specifies in the “Information you give us” section that biometric data may be collected.
Avoid identity theft
Therefore, this data could be used to verify the identity of a user, to prevent identity theft, which for a time became legion on the platform with the change of access to blue checkmarks (which are no longer linked to no authentication, as was the case in the past).
Information of this type will be collected in addition to the name, email address, telephone number, date of birth or bank details, for example from people subscribed to the X Premium (formerly Twitter Blue) service.
Another type of data that will soon be collected: information related to the user’s professional career. Twitter specifies that the application may collect your professional experiences, your education or your skills to recommend you to potential employers or offer you job offers.
This collection could be explained by the job search function that could soon be integrated into the social network (already available on the other side of the Atlantic). in beta). In this way, verified organizations will be able to publish job offers on the platform.
These new data collection measures will be effective as of September 29. To find out what data Twitter has access to about you, you can go to the settings of the application and then to “Privacy and security”, where you will find information on how to share your data, in particular about advertising, cookies or location.
Source: BFM TV
