Quote from: aioc on Today at 07:41:13 PM

Quote from: prp-e on June 04, 2025, 10:15:06 AM

Also there are publicly available Iris datasets (from medical centers or government offices which used Iris scan as a form of biometric authentication) and what happens if World Coin, specially being backed by Sam Altman (who has a history of using copyrighted material for OpenAI's model training) uses those and those people don't benefit from that?

These are my thoughts or questions. I am really curious to here about your thoughts on this.

We've seen in futuristic movies how the characters are using their iris to access platforms and portals, so we can conclude that our iris is part of our unique identity, just like our thumbmark, so we are practically selling our identity, so this is the reason why this is ban on many countries. Now they are doing this to third world country where they can easily bribe people in exchange for iris scan.
Cryptocurrency should be about decentralization, and this World Coin is violating it.

Well it's not that futuristic. We currently have iris based authentication but since the tech is expensive, it's not widely used (like the face scan or fingerprint). Each person's iris has a unique cellular structure and this is what they're supposedly turning to code.

Quote from: passwordnow on Today at 08:11:32 PM

Quote from: prp-e on June 07, 2025, 11:41:50 AM

Quote from: DeathAngel on June 07, 2025, 09:33:20 AM

Don’t like it & there’s zero chance I ever willingly allow anybody to use a scan of my retina for who even knows what. I mean everybody has a price but nobody is going to give me what I’d accept for such an invasion of my privacy. There are so many options in crypto to try & make money, you don’t need to stoop as low as WLD to do it.

Agreed. Or at least they have to do it in a way people think it's worth it. I don't know, maybe paying $1000 to each participant?

That will be an absolute hit if they're goig to pay with WLD worth of $1k for all of the scans that they will do. And I will even think about it if I'm going to do that or not but most likely, no. What they're paying currently isn't a lot and people who are desperate doing it probably don't have any money left and that's why they've done it. They are the people that have no choice at all and they're in need, and so after receiving the WLD rewards, they've dumped it asap for them to use the money however they want it to be and for any use they can.

I can understand how desperate people can get over not having money and do anything for that. I witnessed a Telegram group dedicated to people who got around $0.05 for solving CAPTCHAs. Honestly I guess that is a better way of making money for two obvious reasons. First, that is not putting you in danger of identity theft and second, most of those people are automating CAPTCHA solving so they can reach $10-$15 a day which can be a good number in some of those bad economies.