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Musk Says Social Platform X to Collect Biometrics Only at User's Consent

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Social network X, formerly known as Twitter, will collect biometrics information of its users only upon the individual's consent, owner Elon Musk has said.
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At the end of August, X announced it would soon begin collecting users’ biometrics data, as well as job and education history.
"This is entirely at the discretion of the X user. No use of this ID will be made beyond what is explicitly & clearly approved by the user," Musk said on X late Friday.
Musk bought then-Twitter for an estimated $44 billion last October. Twitter Corporation ceased to exist as a separate company as a result of its merger with X Corp. this April. In late July, Twitter’s logo was changed from a blue bird to a black-and-white X logo. Musk specified that the new logo symbolized "the imperfections in us all that make us unique."
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