Opinion: What's wrong with paying people in underdeveloped countries to collect troves of biometric data?
Having one company own biometric data for individuals in underdeveloped countries poses significant risks for individuals. On a broader societal scale, these are even more significant when coupled with UBI payments to foreign citizens.Biometric data like irises is highly sensitive and unique to each individual. It can reveal information such as sex, ethnicity and, perhaps, medical conditions.
More so, if the company operates across borders, it could wield undue power and influence over governments and societies. Financially supporting a large number of foreign citizens under a universal basic income model could ultimately reduce the autonomy and sovereignty of a country’s democratic processes.
When visiting Worldcoin’s Orbs to scan their irises, registrants are given a promotional sticker that reads “Verified Human.” There’s a slight feeling of discomfort in being referred to simply asIn the context of selling your identity for a few bucks to a cryptocurrency project with ties to AI development, it almost sounds like a Freudian slip. It’s as if personhood is a forgotten idea, and now we’re just humans in a massive database of biometric data.
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