"The Worldcoin project, co-founded by the chief executive of #ChatGPT developer #OpenAI,
#SamAltman, launched last week. It requires users to give their #IrisScans in exchange for a #DigitalID, and according to its co-founders could ultimately be the basis for a #UniversalBasicIncome funded by #AI." #Crypto #CryptoCurrency
#Kenya halts Worldcoin data collection over privacy and security concerns | #Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/03/kenya-halts-worldcoin-data-collection-over-privacy-and-security-concerns
WOW. What a waste of money and compute. Rather than cataloguing humans for future business and state-based exploitation, all this energy and investment could be spent on research that will actually change our lives for the better (climate, fuel, public infrastructure...). Why are idiots allowed to fund other idiots and propagate this Idiocracy ?
Link: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/worldcoin-orb-ai-2341500
#WorldCoin #EyeScans #Dystopia #Surveillance #IrisScans #DataSecurity #CyberSecurity #HarmfulTech
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.
There is a market for #IrisScans. Relatively well off Chinese pay relatively poor black people to get their iris scans. They then sell these iris scans under their own name to #crypto bro Sam Altman.
No, really.
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."Sam Altman's Worldcoin project, a dystopian effort to use chrome orbs to scan the irises of people (often in developing nations) in exchange for vague promises of crypto compensation, is encountering even more difficulties. In April 2022, BuzzFeed News and MIT Technology Review both published in-depth reporting on some of the technical and ethical issues the project has run up against.Now, the project is facing reports that people in China, who are not allowed to sign up legitimately, have been purchasing iris scans from individuals in Africa and Southeast Asia in order to circumvent the restriction. According to the news outlet BlockBeats, Chinese individuals have been engaging in "eyeball speculation": buying biometric data scanned en masse from villagers in Cambodia, Kenya, and elsewhere by people who then sell it for $30 or less, allowing the buyer to receive the associated Worldcoin payout (currently ~$20).Worldcoin has said they are rolling out various measures to try to discourage this activity, including changing the in-person sign-up process. However, the project acknowledged that they have not figured out how to prevent this, writing: "Despite these precautions, it is important to acknowledge that they do not entirely safeguard against collusion or other attempts to bypass the one-person-one-proof principle. To address these challenges, innovative ideas in mechanism design and the attribution of social relationships will be necessary."
For Sale on eBay: A Military Database of Fingerprints and Iris Scans
Most people in the database, which was reviewed by The New York Times, were from Afghanistan and Iraq. Many were known terrorists and wanted individuals, but others appeared to be people who had worked with the U.S. government or simply been stopped at checkpoints
#fingerprints #irisscans #biometrics #seekII #data #bigdata #military #technology #tech
For Sale on eBay: A Military #database of #fingerprints and #irisscans - New York Times
German #security researchers studying #biometric capture devices popular with the U.S. military got more than they expected for $68 on #ebay.
#biometrics #fingerprints, #irisscans #facialrecognition
A major #security breach raises a key question: what happens when your biometric data is exfiltrated from a system?
It’s no secret that password security is often terrible. Good passwords – ones that are long and include a mix of lower case, upper case, numbers, and special characters – are hard to remember unless you use a password manager, which few seem to do. As a result, people tend to choose easy-to-guess passwords like … Continue reading "A major security breach raises a key question: what happens when your biometric data is exfiltrated from a system?"
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