Well, there you go, that was their plan all along, sell the data to companies & governments. It was never about “Providing universal basic income in the age of AI taking over jobs”…

This is literally ‘1984’. Yeah, but worse, because it is real and worldwide… It also shows how many people live in poverty willing to scan and expose their biometric data for a few $…

Monopoly on global ID, what could go wrong with that…

Here’s the article on Yahoo:

Worldcoin will expand its operations to sign up more users globally and aims to allow other organisations to use its iris-scanning and identity-verifying technology, a senior manager for the company behind the project told Reuters.

Co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Worldcoin launched last week, requiring users to give their iris scans in exchange for a digital ID and, in some countries, free cryptocurrency as part of plans to create a “identity and financial network”.

In sign-up sites around the world, people have been getting their faces scanned by a shiny spherical “orb”, shrugging off privacy campaigners’ concerns that the biometric data could be misused. Worldcoin says 2.2 million have signed up, mostly during a trial period over the last two years. Data watchdogs in Britain, France and Germany have said they are looking into the project…Read More!