| This kind of headline would normally be torn apart by HN for being somewhat uncharitable for its word choice. But in this case, I'm sure the crypto angle will inspire a knee-jerk negative reaction. Instead, here are a few links for the curious, which explain how the techniques Worldcoin employs may be one of the only viable methods to generate a totally privacy-preserving form of internet native identification and Sybil resistance. The result is that no images of irises ever need to be saved, unlike CLEAR or other surveillance state friendly techniques that create dangerous repositories of private information. 1. Humanness in the Age of AI: https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/humanness-in-the-age-... This piece explains other techniques to identify personhood and why they've fallen short. 2. Proof of Personhood and Why It's Needed: https://worldcoin.org/blog/worldcoin/proof-of-personhood-wha... And outline of the general motivation. 3. Privacy at Worldcoin: https://worldcoin.org/blog/developers/privacy-deep-dive Some of the extreme lengths they've gone to make it impossible to reconstruct who is behind the unique identifier. |