• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    If World ID becomes one of Reddit’s third-party providers, it would be good news for Tools for Humanity, which was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.

    What the actual fuck.

    Seriously how on Earth is that supposed to work?

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      20 hours ago

      Selling data on people is a lucrative business. Although it is a business and not UBI.

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        Okay I’ve scanned my eyeball and I’ve got some of their worthless cryptocurrency. What about next month, do they want me to scan my eyeball again, because I guarantee it won’t have changed.

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          It could probably be worth it to keep an active eye on your data even if it remains roughly the same. To keep an established base line, to keep an eye out for changes in environment in specific areas, to monitor the effects of aging, to sell you shit when your eye gets damaged. Probably other evil shit too, or just the paranoid urge to surveil people for no damn reason.

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      It’s just a buzzword volly to get people to want to surrender more data. Actually insane premise lmao

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      I read about this a few years ago, and even saw them in a mall in Western EU.

      The whole thing is just bio-data mining, and they started by preying on some poor regions in Africa