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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 24 points 1 week ago

If World ID becomes one of Reddit’s third-party providers, it would be good news for Tools for Humanity, which was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.

What the actual fuck.

Seriously how on Earth is that supposed to work?

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago

It's just a buzzword volly to get people to want to surrender more data. Actually insane premise lmao

[-] shani66@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago

Selling data on people is a lucrative business. Although it is a business and not UBI.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Okay I've scanned my eyeball and I've got some of their worthless cryptocurrency. What about next month, do they want me to scan my eyeball again, because I guarantee it won't have changed.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I read about this a few years ago, and even saw them in a mall in Western EU.

The whole thing is just bio-data mining, and they started by preying on some poor regions in Africa

this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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