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A few years ago most people would have said the same about fingerprint reading or face scanning, and yet we're living in a world where it is completely standard now
Mass collection of fingerprints or face scans from people is not standard.
with another of his companies, which is registered in the Cayman Islands I had to look this up [1]... was curious why all the virtual currencies register in the Cayman Islands. It seems their government provides a lot of protection and no taxation. [1] - https://www.globallegalinsights.com/practice-areas/blockchai...
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A few years ago most people would have said the same about fingerprint reading or face scanning, and yet we're living in a world where it is completely standard now
> we're living in a world where it is completely standard now No it isn't. Ew. If an employer asked to fingerprint me I'd tell them where to stick their scanner. You know what is "completely standard" now? Governments and corporations leaking terabytes of private information, with barely a shred of accountability. We need to be pulling this in the exact opposite direction, not normalizing it; and not adding retina sc…
They don't need to, because your employer probably asked you for a form of biometric ID.
Is it just me or does Worldcoin just seem like a massive ploy to get one's hands on a ton of biometric data? Scan your eyes and get $20 in funny money that may or may not be redeemable later. The coin will crash and burn like all the others leaving Sam with a treasure trove of biometrics data to do whatever he wants with.
How many body parts can be scanned for a unique fingerprint? I can see at least another five or six coins out of this idea, some pretty shocking :-)
Is it just me or does Worldcoin just seem like a massive ploy to get one's hands on a ton of biometric data? Scan your eyes and get $20 in funny money that may or may not be redeemable later. The coin will crash and burn like all the others leaving Sam with a treasure trove of biometrics data to do whatever he wants with.
To what end, though? I can't claim you are wrong, but I just don't see the benefit without resorting to ludicrous movie plots that largely don't hold up outside of entertainment value.
That's what's always been behind the push for ai, the hope that these ML programs can extract gold from the ocean.
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Not that crazy - corruption and malfeasance are primary risks to your effective yield when trying to distribute aid like that. Middle-men and middle-women inevitably appear, one to one authentication is one way to keep them away.
This just moves the puck. No chance in hell this technology is not abused.
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A few years ago most people would have said the same about fingerprint reading or face scanning, and yet we're living in a world where it is completely standard now
Mass collection of fingerprints or face scans from people is not standard.
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It kinda sounds like increasing from AES-128 to AES-256 as a mitigation when the actual threat is social engineering. So people need to provide retinal scans now - and how does that prevent thugs from robbing/coercing them shortly after?
The problem being solved here is a single person taking an aid package several times for reselling. You can't solve everything, I guess?
Is it just me or does Worldcoin just seem like a massive ploy to get one's hands on a ton of biometric data? Scan your eyes and get $20 in funny money that may or may not be redeemable later. The coin will crash and burn like all the others leaving Sam with a treasure trove of biometrics data to do whatever he wants with.
Trouble is, the Sam in question with these coins was Sam Bankman-Fried