X, formerly known as Twitter, to collect biometric data, education and work history for use in AI

Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has expanded the data it gathers on users to include biometric information. The kind of information being collected — and how it might be used — is getting attention from tech watchers. “We may use the information we collect … to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy,” the company recently added to its online privacy policy. However, those exact purposes aren’t entirely made clear — except being for authentication and the operation of services — and X’s definit…

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