2y ago

Worldcoin says will allow companies, governments to use its ID system

finance.yahoo.com Worldcoin says will allow companies, governments to use its ID system

Worldcoin will expand its operations to sign up more users globally and aims to allow other organisations to use its iris-scanning and identity-verifying technology, a senior manager for the company behind the project told Reuters. Co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Worldcoin launched last week, ...

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Wow, I'm shocked that they're going to sell the biometric data to anyone who wants it. Well, not that shocked. Actually, not shocked at all.
- What's the opposite of shocked? I'm that.

How magnanimous of them. I'm sure governments and companies are rushing to use their vaporware.

That’s like Equifax saying “good news, we’re keeping a credit report on everyone!”

Hard pass

How gracious of them. I hope this gets banned quickly.

I feel like I am missing something about how this works.
Take this use case “ Companies could pay Worldcoin to use its digital identity system, for example if a coffee shop wants to give everyone one free coffee, then Worldcoin's technology could be used to ensure that people do not claim more than one coffee without the shop needing to gather personal data, Macieira said.”
What is stopping someone from showing up with 2 IDs and claiming 2 coffees. I dont know how you prove that the person showing up with a coin is the person who was physically scanned. Much less how you prove the person today was the person who was scanned 40 years ago.

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