[MIT Tecnology Review] Worldcoin - biometrics, crypto, and "crypto-colonialism".

[VirtualLarry]

Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How World recruited its first half a million test users

The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it's done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.

www.technologyreview.com

Is this going to be a force for good, or evil? Snowden's quote in the middle about biometric data collection is telling.

 

[nakedfrog]

I mean, even before I start to read the article, the concept of "cryptocurrency-based UBI" is already a sketchy-as-hell concept.

 

[zinfamous]

Don't we have a crypto thread dedicated to all this nonsense?