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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.

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failed to obtain meaningful informed consent

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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

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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.

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What was Worldcoin doing with all these iris scans?

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