Deception, Exploited Workers, and Cash Handouts: How Worldcoin Recruited Its First Half a Million Test Users
by Eileen Guo Adi Renaldi
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Tools for Humanity emerged from stealth mode. Worldcoin was its product.
failed to obtain meaningful informed consent
the risk of so-called Sybil attacks, which occur when one entity in a network creates and controls multiple fake accounts. This is particularly dangerous in decentralized networks where pseudonyms are expected
These practices may violate the European Union's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)—a likelihood that the company's own data consent policy acknowledged and asked users to accept—as well as local laws.
What was Worldcoin doing with all these iris scans?
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