{"id":95322,"date":"2025-05-02T13:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95322"},"modified":"2025-05-02T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:08:16","slug":"this-technology-could-easily-be-abused-and-lock-people-out-of-almost-anything-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/05\/02\/this-technology-could-easily-be-abused-and-lock-people-out-of-almost-anything-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"This technology could easily be abused and lock people out of almost anything. [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/sam-altman-orb-eyeball-scan-launch-us\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sam Altman&#8217;s Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from wired.com by Lauren Goode<br \/>\n<em>At a buzzy event in San Francisco, World announced a series of Apple-like stores, a partnership with dating giant Match Group, and a new mini gadget to scan your eyeballs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/sam-altman-orb-eyeball-scan-launch-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/671153e434db9b698e41762d\/3:2\/w_1600,c_limit\/Worldcoin-Event-Coverage-Business-New-Orb-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The\u00a0device-and-app combo\u00a0scans people\u2019s irises, creates a unique user ID, stores that information on the blockchain, and uses it as a form of identity verification. If enough people adopt the app globally, the thinking goes, it could ostensibly thwart scammers.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe bizarre identity verification process requires that users get their eyeballs scanned, so Tools for Humanity is expanding its physical footprint to make that a possibility.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBut World is also a for-profit cryptocurrency company that wants to build a borderless,\u00a0\u201cglobally inclusive\u201d financial network. And its approach has been criticized by privacy advocates and regulators. In its early days, World was explicitly marketing its services to countries with a high percentage of unbanked or underbanked citizens, and\u00a0offering free crypto as an incentive\u00a0for people to sign up and have their irises scanned.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">If people and governments could be trusted with the level of power a global ID network\/service could bring, this could be a great technology. But I could easily see it being abused. Heck, even our own President doesn&#8217;t listen to the Judicial Branch of our government! He&#8217;s in contempt of court, essentially. But he doesn&#8217;t seem to care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman&#8217;s Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US\u00a0&#8212; from wired.com by Lauren Goode At a buzzy event in San Francisco, World announced a series of Apple-like stores, a partnership with dating giant Match Group, and a new mini gadget to scan your eyeballs. The\u00a0device-and-app combo\u00a0scans people\u2019s irises, creates a unique user ID, stores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,356,61,858,72,306,95,480,454,195,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business-side-of-he","category-cryptocurrencies","category-daniel-s-christian","category-economics","category-global-globalization","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95325,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95322\/revisions\/95325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}