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X's new privacy policy allows it to collect users' biometric data
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this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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Forgive my ignorance, but do mobile devices even store biometric data ? I was under the impression that our biometric data would be hashed and salted and our thumb/face would unlock it, akin to how a normal password flow works..?
I think what they're implying here is that X (and other apps) can access the biometric sensors directly themselves.
I still don't think that's how it works even if X would like it to.