So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

Almost like he made a very bad business decision.

Well isn't that obvious.

If it does fail, any replacement twitter type service will have to have a more sustainable way of making money.

The subscription model is probably the way forward for a niche site like twitter. Those of us who love the news and news tweets will probably pay a small fee to keep up to date on twitter.

His actions wouldn’t stand up under Irish employment law. The employer can’t unilaterally change the terms and conditions of work (“hardcore”) on a whim. The employer can’t deem people to have resigned. They didn’t resign.

Meanwhile

That's a parody account, he's joking.

Exactly. Social Media companies live or die based upon advertisers revenue. They are not a "Services" company.... Well, they are in that they serve valuable data to their advertisers. But as a platform becomes more and more toxic and partisan, the value of that data diminishes. Advertisers want as broad a pool of data as possible. They want data on people of as many nationalities as possible. As wide an age-gap as possible. As wide a income level as possible. Left, right, centre. Male, female, other. As many religions as possible. They don't want to preach to the choir. They need a diverse pool of data. How diverse do you think Twitter will be in 6 months? In a year? How diverse do you think "truth social" is? How many affluent, educated young transgender people with money to burn do you think there are on truth social? This was all brought up last year on the trump Thread: about Musk's initial spoutings of it being a total "free speech" platform without moderation (This was very early days before he "backed out"). Every single person then said on the thread that it would just turn into 4chan and become so toxic that advertisers would abandon it in droves and move on to the next thing.

It's not that we had some great insight into the world of high-finance or were some advertisment gurus. It was just simple obvious commonsense. Business is business and a company will not want to be associated with a toxic brand/platform. Now, while there are currently no twitter-killers out there (Mastadon too niche, others extremely partisan one way or another), if there is a gap, SOMEONE will fill it. Unfortunately it will mean that the likes of Zuckerberg or Besos will be the likely candidates.

It REALLY is strange and I can't help but feel that it is entirely intentional and we are not seeing the big picture

Yeah but you can tell because Musk responded to him playing along with the joke rather than firing him. Besides, Musk is definitely laughing along with everyone right now, and definitely isn't concerned about the amount of money he's about to lose and the damage to his reputation and possibly even the knock-on effect it will have regarding his other companies. Nope, he's definitely having a good time with the memez and lulz.

How much it costs and how much is worth are different notions. It's like a branded tshirt made in a sweat shop Bangladesh which is worth 3 cents yet it's being sold for 100 euros.

OK, let's drill into this example then.

As explained in the texts highlighted above, consent is not a good legal basis for processing employee data, as it is not freely given and can be withdrawn. So they need another legal basis for the ID card data, including a photograph, which is biometric data. The legal basis is going to be something like "to manage access to the building for safety and security reasons" which is fine. They need to inform staff of the legal basis, provide a channel for staff to make Subject Access Requests to see what data is held, have a clear policy around retention and deletion of data, and hold the data securely.

RFID reach is normally something like 30cm, so unless you're working in a shoebox, they're not using RFID to track your location.

If they employer turns around and tries to use this data for a different purpose, they are so screwed. If, for example, they use the access card data to reprimand or fire you because you went to the bathroom three times an hour, they would be big trouble with the DPC and WRC. 

I haven't seen access systems that display a photo which is then verified by a human security officer. It would seem to be over the top for the vast majority of office environments. What companies use such systems in Ireland?

CCTV systems are well covered in DPC guidance already. CCTV covering a till where cash is handled or a storeroom where goods are being shipped in and out is fine. CCTV over a changing room or break room or toilet is absolutely not fine. CCTV monitoring into a staff member's home via webcam would be an absolute can of worms from a data protection point of view. What happens when other family members are recorded on camera? What happens when someone's naked spouse passes in the background of the camera? What happens when a private conversation is recorded? I can't see how this could get past any sensible GDPR review. I've never heard of any company doing this for staff in Ireland.

I've seen someone else say (not sure if here or maybe on Twitter itself) that Musk's attitude in bullying employees into accepting awful working conditions and pressures etc usually worked because a) he was part of the companies from earlier and so it was always the workplace culture, and b) the engineers and staff at the likes of Tesla & SpaceX have more limited options in terms of jobs elsewhere. A huge amount of the staff at Twitter could quite easily get jobs elsewhere with comparable working conditions/salary to Twitter pre-Musk and have skills which are far more easily transferrable to another company.