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New Privacy Guides article 👁️⛔️
by me:

Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman
announced his ambitious plan for the World project, formerly known as Worldcoin.

The company opened 6 stores where people can go to get their biometric data collected from a creepy iris scanner called The Orb.

But this isn't just a cryptocurrency grift anymore, this is much more dystopian.

In this article, I describe the risk of using such service, the unethical practices the World project has been employing to gather numbers, and how this is a slippery slope towards the normalization of mass surveillance we should all worry about.

Say NO to the Orb!

Don't scan your eyeballs! 👁️🙅‍♀️

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball/

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #NoAI #AI #Worldcoin #BiometricData #GDPR

Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced in San Francisco that the World project he co-founded, formerly known as Worldcoin, is opening six stores across the United States, allowing users of the project's app to scan their eyeballs. This is worrisome, to say the least.

Privacy Guides
May 10, 2025 at 3:06pmWeb
Show threadFrannovalMay 10, 2025
@Em0nM4stodon wow, this is awful. Specially disgusting are the soft and fuzzy names they use for this stuff.
BTW, if you know them, you might wanna point out to the author/editor that “under the radar“ means not visible. What the author seems to have meant to say is “on people’s radar“(visible).
Show threadMedea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀May 10, 2025

@Em0nM4stodon @DelilahTech

Artist Simulation

https://youtu.be/H8yQhXDquII?si=TaNM2ms3RuWZFkvk

The Nozzle | The Venture Bros. | Adult Swim

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Show threadFlounderMay 10, 2025
@Em0nM4stodon I do love having my person-hood attached to the existence of some hash in a corporate database
Show threadNeimanMay 10, 2025

@Em0nM4stodon Following a discussion with a very nice person from World, I wrote this thought experiment to explain why I'm against World.

https://neimanslab.org/2025-01-15/the_immutable_badge.html

The Immutable Badge - A Thought Experiment

Imagine an immutable, hidden badge is attached to you. You cannot remove, transfer, or modify it. However, no one can see it without your knowledge and consent. This is a thought experiment about the ultimate biometrics identifier.

Neiman’s Blog
Show threadbyte::Arc<Eepy>  :rabiesPride:  May 10, 2025
@Em0nM4stodon that's the most dystopian shit ever, why would anyone do that for any reason
Show threadHyde 📷 🖋 May 11, 2025
@byte @Em0nM4stodon I've seen people in Portugal getting their eyes scanned because they gave back some money, different prizes, etc ... Scary
Show threadLandoMay 10, 2025
@Em0nM4stodon Does it look like this?
Show threadclang-enbyMay 10, 2025

@Em0nM4stodon

Can techbros please stop making dystopian shit like sauron's eye a reality?

Show threadsu_liamMay 12, 2025
@Em0nM4stodon @sudo200 Is Torment Nexus into beta yet.
Show threadSeán FenianMay 10, 2025
@Em0nM4stodon What an incredibly terrible idea.
Show threadMaria “indigoviolet” IvyMay 10, 2025
@Em0nM4stodon jesus fucking christ 
Show threadDavid =?🏴‍☠️May 10, 2025

@Em0nM4stodon

This distressing real news from the world of politics and technology shows that the economy and mass surveillance have merged together to form a surveillance economy. Unfortunately, at this moment, we are being digitized, and our identities are being converted into bits and bytes. Right now, your identity is being digitized and stored for eternity by national governments when you obtain a biometric passport.
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Show threadDavid =?🏴‍☠️May 10, 2025

@Em0nM4stodon

Even the European Union—the cradle of the democratic Roman Empire—has introduced a ban on entry into the union without a biometric passport. Your new reality will be just that: you will become nothing more than a set of bits, and your entire identity will be digitized and sold to any government that wishes to buy it.

Hello, Brave New World

#privacy #dystopia

Show threadDavid =?🏴‍☠️May 10, 2025

@Em0nM4stodon

Right now, people who do not have an account on Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp are excluded from many events. People without a passport (which, as a document for everyone, was introduced during World War I) are now considered criminals. You will be forced to disassemble your identity and personality into bits and bytes in order to live in the new world order.

Show threadwuppiMay 10, 2025
@Em0nM4stodon HAL 9000
Show threadLuna chanMay 11, 2025
@Em0nM4stodon Hell no to this.
Show threadwinMay 11, 2025
@Em0nM4stodon wow. Just wow.😟
Show threadAlberto C. BlancoMay 14, 2025

@Em0nM4stodon thanks for writing this eye-opening article! (Pun intended)

Btw, I think I spot an small typo: where it says “some governments (Taiwan and Malesia)” it should say “some governments (Taiwan and Malaysia)” am I correct?