The Kenyan government has ordered cryptocurrency project Worldcoin to stop signing up new users, citing data privacy concerns.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Kenyan government has ordered cryptocurrency project Worldcoin to stop signing up new users, citing data privacy concerns.
Worldcoin, founded by US tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, offers free crypto tokens to people who agree to have their eyeballs scanned.
The ministry of the interior has launched an investigation into Worldcoin and called on security services and data protection agencies to establish its authenticity and legality.
Mr Altman, who founded Open AI which built chat bot ChatGPT, says he hopes the initiative will help confirm if someone is a human or a robot.
Worldcoin told BBC that it chose Kenya as the first African country to launch the platform because of the already booming tech space, and the more than four million Kenyans who are already trading in crypto.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Someone should make a counter crypto currency based around scanning buttholes.
W-why ?
if someone is a human or a robot.
I am sure there are lots of methods to find that and using this method is certainly not an efficient one.
we all need to be more like the Communications Authority of Kenya
So why do they want people’s iris scans? Like they say it’s an easy way to verify someone signing up is a real person but is there some other nefarious reason I’m missing here?
also isn’t the weird orb thing supposed to be local-only? idk. I don’t expect them to keep their promises when it’s actually connected to the internet 24/7
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