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by dougb5 52 days ago
Without the scammy crypto angle ("Worldcoin") it's less ghoulish than before. And a company collecting biometric data to run an identity service isn't necessarily evil. But this one is not to be trusted, because the individual behind it is not to be trusted. The moment it suits his world-bending needs to sell my eyeballs to the fascists, he will do so.
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It’s also without the at least superficially well meaning goal of universal basic income. I guess it makes sense this was where it was headed.