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U.S. companies back Sam Altman’s World ID even as much of the world pushes back (restofworld.org)
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The biometric ID project has been halted and investigated in multiple countries, but it recently partnered with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign to verify users.

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[–] 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh god.. They really want to track every humans on this planet. And we all know for what purposes

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They already do. They just want to make it easier

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    And also have the ability to turn off people's legal existence when they get up to too much anti-corporate shenanigans.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    As someone in a sanctioned country, I actually approve of yet another "official" identifier since it will be used by someone making me less dependent upon my local ID, and since technically everyone not in an Indian or sub-Saharan African village is already being tracked. There too probably.

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