The social network owned by Elon Musk continues to be controversial. After earning strong criticism due to its decision to change the blocking system on the network (blocked profiles can still see your publications), now X modifies its privacy policy to include a right over the use of the data of its registered users .
This new policy, which comes into effect on November 15, now includes agreeing to the company sharing your data with third-party entities or “collaborators” so that they can use it to train their artificial intelligence, an activity they are adding numerous technology companies of various kinds.
Specifically, the new text states: «Depending on your configuration, or whether you decide to share your data, we may share or disclose your information with third parties. If you do not opt out, in some cases recipients of the information may use it for their own independent purposes other than those set forth in X’s Privacy Policy, including, for example, to train their artificial intelligence models, whether generative or of another type.
Something can be extracted from the text: that, as other companies such as Meta have done recently, this new use of data is approved by default, with the user having to actively oppose if they do not wish to share their information, instead of being It is the social network itself that asks the user directly and in advance whether they give their consent or not.
According to American media reports, This means that there is still no way to refuse through the app, although there is through internal form.
On the other hand, although there is no box that mentions this use of AI, there is a paragraph in Settings regarding “data shared with business partners”, which mentions the sharing of data for advertising uses.
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For users in the European Union
Social networks and platforms are having to adapt their policies in one way or another to the laws of the European Union, due to the Digital Services Regulation and the Data Protection Regulation. In this context, X has included in the notice a clarification point for its users in Europe. It means that, for users in this territory who want to deny their consent, the possibility will be given to exercise their rights via an internal process or through a judicial process. Again, it is the user who has to be proactive, rather than the company.
“If you are a recipient of service our internal process or out-of-court dispute resolution as described here«, collects the advertisement.
The punishment against scraping is also toughened
In addition to this, another novelty in its use policy is that it adds harsher penalties for users who scrape X content. Web scrapping is a technique by which information is extracted from a website on a large scale, for example the publications shared by users on this network.
In the “liquidated damages” section of this policy, Although web scraping can be harmful to user privacy, it has also been used on occasion to conduct studies on hate speech.
