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Friends don't let friends get their eyeballs scanned to buy a coffee.

This portable dystopia machine is Tools for Humanity's latest effort to live up to their Orwellian name.

Connoisseurs of the AI-will-end-humanity marketing hype train of a few years ago should find plenty to appreciate in an eyeball scanner framed as as a 'helpful' tool to distinguish between AI agents & humans.

Or is it for that? Or maybe point of sale? Or nebulous 'verification?'

The only clear thing? This device starts from a point of biometric #privacy invasion.

It sure looks to me like another effort by the company Sam Altman founded to make a global data-grab.

Just say no.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/sam-altmans-world-unveils-a-mobile-verification-device/

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Erik Hersman 8mo ago 💬 4

I detest this World coin thing so much. Takes massive advantage of people here in Kenya.

bitcoinpoorguy 比特幣傢伙 🇭🇰 8mo ago

So sad 🥲

⚡️DEFAUXKING⚡️ 8mo ago

Yeah, that’s so fucked

Sat Nakamoto 8mo ago

How is this different than collecting npubs?

Martin 8mo ago

an npub does not necessarily reveal who you are and so it does not even reveal if you are a human at all.

Am I missing something? What makes you think the two are similar?

Sat Nakamoto 8mo ago

If you had to choose, is an iris scan an npub or nsec?

MAV21 8mo ago

Fucked up

Diyana 8mo ago

In what way?

eclaire 8mo ago

No thank you, creepy biometric dude

Technician 8mo ago

There is absolutely no way this could go wrong.

chrizzz 8mo ago

Lol

silentius-satoshi 8mo ago

Abso-*******-lutely no way

I thought facial recognition would the last #privacy-invasive software accepted by modern society at least for this century, but THIS?

eyeball/retinal-esque scan for mobile human verification was not something I foresaw happening in my lifetime.

What next? DNA bodily fluid extraction via blood, saliva, etc?

Crazy times.

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REUZ 8mo ago

When you know more about WorldCoin, you probably will think twice before touching anything Altman related.

Morality is non-existed in the game of money and power.

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GunPower 8mo ago

Just let the people get fucked...

deeznuts 8mo ago

Fuck That Shit

ODELL 8mo ago 💬 1

need to make these people obsolete

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pup 8mo ago

When they try to scan your eyeballs...

jack 8mo ago 💬 2

still have no clue what this company does.

and why people would want to buy a device to scan the eyeballs of their friends.

fleur 8mo ago

just another con by a con - elegant identity theft you pay for the privilege of being scammed by a "helper" multiple times over. the subscription, the package, the storage, the access, the inevitable identity compromise, the recovery, the litigation, the exposure, the personal toll, and never ever being able to effectively protect your biometrics ever again.

syntaxerrs 8mo ago

The probably don’t exactly know either.

jb55 8mo ago

wasn't their pitch to have a "fair" airdrop using biometrics which are supposedly unique?

. 7mo ago

Bro got a side hug 🚩🚩🚩

Diyana 8mo ago

Ugh. I didn't listen to the whole presentation. An hour of Altman earlier this week was plenty. I have to speed him up to 2 or his voice feels unbearable.