Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project (Aug 2023)

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• trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I forgot he was the eyeball guy.

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• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here before 38 million of Kenya’s 53 million population demand the government steps down and reinstates Altman.

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• theodewere@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i'm with Kenya on this.. why would anyone allow Sam Altman to scan their eyeballs?

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• reddithalation@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  finally, ubi might be a good idea, but money for iris scans doesnt seem right

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• casmael@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuckin lmao

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• _s10e@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That was less than 24hours ago. Let’s just wait what happens.

  Either Microsoft buys Kenya or Sam Altman is promoted to King of Narnia.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Kenya is pumping the brakes on Worldcoin — the eyeball-scanning crypto project launched by OpenAI founder Sam Altman.

  The Kenyan government has ordered Worldcoin to stop collecting data in the country while it reviews the project for potential privacy and security risks, as reported earlier by Reuters.

  The project launched last week and has had people lining up to get their eyeballs scanned by the shiny, silver orbs Worldcoin has set up in major cities around the globe.

  In a press release, the Communications Authority of Kenya says it’s going to evaluate Worldcoin due to a “lack of clarity on the security and storage” of the iris scans it’s collecting as well as the “uncertainty” surrounding the attached cryptocurrency.

  As a result of the suspension, authorities had to turn away thousands of people waiting in line to get their iris scanned, the Kenyan newspaper The Standard reports.

  Despite this, Worldcoin maintains that “biometric data never leaves the orb” and is “permanently deleted” after you sign up.

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  The original article contains 395 words, the summary contains 166 words. Saved 58%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Serious question: would you sell your biometric data, and the rights to it? And what’s the price, realistically?

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• tillimarleen@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  good

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• 5BC2E7@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think that the major issue is that they were paying a one time fee for whatever rights they claimed about the biometrics. They should be paying monthly fees instead.

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