Your biometric information and employment history might be collected by X, the former Twitter

The social media network X, which formerly operated as Twitter, announced this week that it may gather biometric and employment data from its users, broadening the breadth of personal data that users may be disclosing to the site.

Two sections pertaining to the new data gathering method were added to the company's privacy policy in an update that included the disclosures.

Additionally, X stated that it may gather users' work and academic backgrounds under a new area titled "job applications."

The business added that it might gather data on "employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement, and so on" in order to recommend job opportunities to users, share that data with potential third-party employers, or better target users with advertisements.

The modifications reflect what many of X's classmates already regularly gather. But it indicates a widening of the categories of data that Twitter is looking to track. The policy change comes as platform owner Elon Musk aims to make it become a "everything app" with capabilities like to those of the well-known Chinese app WeChat, including financial services.