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Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? An A.I. Company Has Placed Mirrored Spheres Around the World in a Massive Eye-Scanning Project (news.artnet.com)
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A.I. company Worldcoin has rolled out 1,500 Orbs to more than 35 cities in a bid to create digital identities for the world's citizens.

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[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the hell is this? How can they even do this without getting deleted.

I'm not sure I understood it correctly. Do people just need to just look at the mirrored surface to get scanned, and they get a coin?

You don't know and don't have an account your bad! We have your eyes now!

Or do people need to read a privacy policy and accept everything before they get scanned?

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it's not magic at least https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/opening-orb-look-inside-worldcoin-biometric-imaging-device

It's not a 360 camera. People have to be able to look at the dark spot where the glass for the cameras are.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool now we know how to approach and destroy these abominations.

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don't destroy them. Ship them to me so I can convert them into stationary cameras for my front door and yard with my self hosted security system.

[–] Goathound@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Eyes for the Eye God!