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I wonder if Twitter will begin to enforce this by requiring photos of people to be tagged, and the subject of the photos to "consent" to Twitter using their photos. If so, and if Twitter behaves like any other tech company in using manipulative tactics engineered to extract "consent", I can only see this ending badly for privacy.

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This will also be abused by politicians, while it will largely be ignored for normal people.

I don't think the new policy applies to politicians[1], though of course they may still try to abuse it.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/private-i... This policy is not applicable to media featuring public figures...

Is Jeffrey Epstein a public figure? Or only the people that used his services?

I can think of one UK MP who would try to abuse this.

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