The Kenyan government has ordered cryptocurrency project Worldcoin to stop signing up new users, citing data privacy concerns.

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    1 year ago

    I want to know too. Can someone EILI5 for me? If I let this thing scan my eye, what’s the worst that could happen? And how is it worse than all the rest of my info that is out there?

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      1 year ago

      Your password is stolen you can change it. Try changing your eyeballs when somebody impersonates you.

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      1 year ago

      To be clear, my working assumption is that there is a nefarious reason, it’s just not immediately obvious to me what it is.

      As someone else mentioned though, you could be a bit fucked if your eyeball data is used to identity fraud you, so perhaps not the best idea for a security standpoint