<div dir="auto">Thanks Mwendwa, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Buzzfeed did a great job investigating this in May this year. They quoted the data commissioner in this article that’s worth reading.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-crypto-eyeball-scanning-orb-problems">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-crypto-eyeball-scanning-orb-problems</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards. </div><div dir="auto">Linda Bonyo</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 at 18:25, Mwendwa Kivuva via KICTANet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Have you heard of World Coin? What is the value of your iris scan? World Coin scans the iris of the public in exchange of the WorldCoin cryptocurrency. I came across them at Sarit Center today. Is this legal? Has Kenyan government and Office of the Data Protection Commissioner given then the go ahead to mass scan the biometrics of Kenyans?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">According to the project’s team, around 30 orbs that can scan people’s eyes and create a unique identifier are located all across the world. Worldcoin orbs can be found in France, Sudan, Indonesia, Kenya, and Chile. Worldcoin’s orbs are maintained by “Orb Operators” who get rewarded for soliciting potential Worldcoin participants. Depending on when the person got in on the project, token recipients can get between $10 and $200 worth of the digital asset worldcoin (WC).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The popular whistleblower Edward Snowden scorned Sam Altman’s Worldcoin intro tweet as well. “This looks like it produces a global (hash) database of people’s iris scans (for ‘fairness’), and waves away the implications by saying ‘we deleted the scans,’” Snowden said. “Yeah, but you save the *hashes* produced by the scans. Hashes that match *future* scans. Don’t catalogue eyeballs,” Snowden added.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://news.bitcoin.com/iris-scanning-worldcoin-idea-fuels-objections-from-privacy-advocates-snowden-says-dont-catalog-eyeballs/" target="_blank">https://news.bitcoin.com/iris-scanning-worldcoin-idea-fuels-objections-from-privacy-advocates-snowden-says-dont-catalog-eyeballs/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div>
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