{"id":41047,"date":"2023-09-01T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=41047"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:11:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T13:11:45","slug":"twitter-to-collect-biometric-data-job-history-for-verification-job-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/twitter-to-collect-biometric-data-job-history-for-verification-job-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to collect biometric data, job history for verification, job recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">Twitter is making changes to its privacy policy that will allow it to collect users&#8217; biometric data and job history.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">The company says that the data will be used for &#8220;safety, security, and identification purposes&#8221; as well as to &#8220;recommend potential jobs to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">The changes come as Elon Musk, the billionaire who recently acquired Twitter, has said that he wants to make the platform a more &#8220;inclusive&#8221; and &#8220;reliable&#8221; place. As expected, some privacy experts have raised concerns about the new data collection practices.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">&#8220;This is a significant expansion of Twitter&#8217;s data collection powers,&#8221; said Peter Swire, a professor of law at the Georgia Institute of Technology. &#8220;It&#8217;s not clear why Twitter needs this data, and it&#8217;s certainly not clear why it needs to collect it without users&#8217; explicit consent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">Twitter has said that users will have the option to opt out of the data collection, but it is unclear how easy it will be to do so.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/elon-twitter-privacy-biometric-data-employment-history-1850791400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is making changes to its privacy policy that will allow it to collect users&#8217; biometric data and job history. The company says that the data will be used for &#8220;safety, security, and identification purposes&#8221; as well as to &#8220;recommend potential jobs to you.&#8221; The changes come as Elon Musk, the billionaire who recently acquired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-41047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41049,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41047\/revisions\/41049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}