Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by theboywho on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:24PM (#36909254)

I don't get all the comments, from the worldcoin website:

> Your biometric data is first processed locally on the Orb and then permanently deleted. The only data that remains is your IrisCode. This IrisCode is a set of numbers generated by the Orb and is not linked to your wallet or any of your personal information. As a result, it really tells us — and everyone else — nothing about you. All it does is stop you from being able to sign up again.

> Since you are not required to provide personal information like your name, email address, physical address or phone number, this means that you can easily sign up without us ever knowing anything about you.

If Worldcoin is building a biometric database, that must be the most useless database in the world.

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by wahnfrieden on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:25PM (#36909271)

is there evidence this is accurate? it's marketing copy

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by 93po on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:51PM (#36909710)

They are making the orb hardware and software open source last I heard.

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by abenga on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:31PM (#36912889)

How do we know that is the software and hardware actually deployed?

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by 93po on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:53PM (#36922087)

There were discussions about third party audits but it's still pretty early for that to be concrete

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by wmf on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:44PM (#36909586)

You can't beat disgust with better tech.

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by tamimio on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:58PM (#36909816)

>dude, trust us!!

Yeah, no.

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by btouellette on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:04PM (#36910782)

If I understand correctly this is what they want to do eventually (delete the info used to create the iris hash) but isn't actually what they are doing. The impression is that once they have their algorithm "perfect" and never need to retest on source data they'll go back and delete all the data they have stored but who really trusts that will happen?

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