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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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[–] yip-bonk@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Passersby need only gaze into its mirrored surface, whereupon the device will scan their irises and generate a unique hash or numeric code attached to their particular set of eyes. In exchange, each participant will receive a World ID and a WLD token.

What th’ . . . are you kids on _dope?!_

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

The article is misrepresenting the whole thing. It's voluntary, the devices are not just randomly picking up iris scans.

Click bait at it's finest.

[–] mPony@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

BUT WE WANT TO FREAK OUT AND BE AFRAID FOREVER : The Internet

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