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Bloomberg: Inside Worldcoin’s Orb Factory, Audacious and Absurd Defender of Humanity 

August 12, 2024

We do know exactly how a lot of humans feel about the Worldcoin effort. Last year the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a think tank in Washington, described the two major concerns surrounding the project quite clearly in a statement. “Worldcoin’s approach creates serious privacy risks by bribing the poorest and most vulnerable people to turn over unchangeable biometrics like iris scans and facial recognition images in exchange for a small payout,” wrote Jake Wiener, the group’s legal counsel. “Mass collections of biometrics like Worldcoin threaten people’s privacy on a grand scale, both if the company misuses the information it collects and if that data is stolen.”

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