{"id":247301,"date":"2023-09-05T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T12:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=305178"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:19:44","slug":"elon-musk-wants-you-to-give-him-more-personal-data-for-using-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musk-wants-you-to-give-him-more-personal-data-for-using-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk wants you to provide more personal data in exchange for using Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When we register on a social network, it’s common to have to provide a lot of our personal data for advertising purposes. These data help companies like Facebook<\/a><\/strong> better target their users<\/strong> so that advertisers can show us ads that align with our preferences (thus achieving higher conversion rates<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n

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But it seems that Twitter<\/strong> (now X<\/strong>) doesn’t find the data we provide sufficient, and they want even more. According to Bloomberg<\/strong><\/a>, the company, now owned by billionaire Elon Musk<\/strong>, has updated its privacy policy<\/strong> to make it clear that from now on, it can collect users’ “employment history” and even their “biometric information.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for security and identification purposes<\/strong>,” Twitter states<\/a>. However, the paragraph does not detail what information they would collect from users (it could be fingerprints or facial features, for example), nor the method they would use to collect it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Furthermore, Twitter states that “we may collect and use your personal information (such as your employment history, educational history, job preferences<\/strong>, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement, etc.),” something the social network had not shown interest in before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the privacy policy update, this would be done “to recommend potential job positions to you<\/strong>, to share it with potential employers when you apply for a job, to allow employers to find potential candidates, and to show you more relevant advertisements.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Knowing that Musk wants to turn Twitter into “X, the app for everything<\/a>” (emulating the Chinese app WeChat<\/strong>), and considering that the platform launched a job search feature<\/a> last week, it can be easily deduced why Twitter would need all that data. Furthermore, Musk announced a few days ago that Twitter would now also be used for making video calls<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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