Hand over your eyeballs!

webecedarian · 26 Sep 2023, 11:10 AM

Crypto’s Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has started Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that aims to scan billions of human irises.
By David Yaffe-Bellany

To skeptics, the prospect of a privately owned crypto company’s handling the biometric data from billions of people sounds like a recipe for dystopia, with echoes of the 2002 Tom Cruise film “Minority Report.” But Tools for Humanity has raised $115 million this year from venture capital investors, even as funding for crypto has dried up during a downturn in the industry...

“Don’t catalogue eyeballs,” responded Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower and privacy advocate, on what was then Twitter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/t...ris-scans.html

Bamb0 · 26 Sep 2023, 01:15 PM

No thanx.........

26 Sep 2023, 11:10 AM	#1
webecedarian Essential Contributor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 472	Hand over your eyeballs! Crypto’s Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has started Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that aims to scan billions of human irises. By David Yaffe-Bellany To skeptics, the prospect of a privately owned crypto company’s handling the biometric data from billions of people sounds like a recipe for dystopia, with echoes of the 2002 Tom Cruise film “Minority Report.” But Tools for Humanity has raised $115 million this year from venture capital investors, even as funding for crypto has dried up during a downturn in the industry... “Don’t catalogue eyeballs,” responded Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower and privacy advocate, on what was then Twitter. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/t...ris-scans.html

26 Sep 2023, 01:15 PM	#2
Bamb0 Master of the @ Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 1,806	No thanx.........