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U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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World id, meta verifier, how many other military funded establishments are pushing to require mass surveillance of everyone doing anything. Meanwhile their bots run rampant all over the Internet without any concern for anyone else's infrastructure, copyright, or ip. The irony...

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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You mean to tell me that companies that got rich by hoarding data are excited to hoard more data? Never would have guessed. Also, why wouldn't anyone want to have data about everyone? Seems like a valuable asset.

Defense contractors can sell it to the military and related agencies for top dollar. That's probably number 1, number 2 is higher fidelity correlations to other data.

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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Of course they do, when the age verification morphs into real personal identification (PI) all people's habits will be known to everyone.

Time to put a stop to this PI tracking trend. But we all know PI will be tracked by all entities in the future in about 10 - 20 years.

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