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submitted 1 year ago by Tazmanian@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

The Kenyan government has ordered cryptocurrency project Worldcoin to stop signing up new users, citing data privacy concerns.

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[-] SomeoneElse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I want to know too. Can someone EILI5 for me? If I let this thing scan my eye, what’s the worst that could happen? And how is it worse than all the rest of my info that is out there?

[-] jherazob@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Your password is stolen you can change it. Try changing your eyeballs when somebody impersonates you.

[-] reflex@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Xcf456@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

To be clear, my working assumption is that there is a nefarious reason, it's just not immediately obvious to me what it is.

As someone else mentioned though, you could be a bit fucked if your eyeball data is used to identity fraud you, so perhaps not the best idea for a security standpoint

this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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