I read about this a few years ago, and even saw them in a mall in Western EU.
The whole thing is just bio-data mining, and they started by preying on some poor regions inf Africa
Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
If World ID becomes one of Reddit’s third-party providers, it would be good news for Tools for Humanity, which was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.
What the actual fuck.
Seriously how on Earth is that supposed to work?
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 days ago
shani66@ani.social 2 days ago
Selling data on people is a lucrative business. Although it is a business and not UBI.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Okay I’ve scanned my eyeball and I’ve got some of their worthless cryptocurrency. What about next month, do they want me to scan my eyeball again, because I guarantee it won’t have changed.
shani66@ani.social 1 day ago
It could probably be worth it to keep an active eye on your data even if it remains roughly the same. To keep an established base line, to keep an eye out for changes in environment in specific areas, to monitor the effects of aging, to sell you shit when your eye gets damaged. Probably other evil shit too, or just the paranoid urge to surveil people for no damn reason.
frank@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
It’s just a buzzword volly to get people to want to surrender more data. Actually insane premise lmao