World, Sam Altman Project, Come into the US: Less Secrets, More Vechat
San Francisco* | Captcha, checking in two steps, facial identification: left Authorization toolsWith critical failures in the wake of the progress of productive algorithms. Together, they reinforce the question about the balance between security and privacy, verification and dystopian losses of virtual surveillance.
There is also a financial size: according to A Only FGV studyThe lack of facial biometrics only one day causes R $ 4.7 million in Brazilian GDP. Thanks to biometric identification systems, Billion, which has been avoided last year, expressed 115 billion frauds.
In recent years, there have been increasing concerns about the matter, and experts have been warning about the dangers of biometric identification systems on a global scale. And the confusion of it Sam Altman When he decides to create a project parallel to his Openai deal: World Coin.
A program held on Wednesday, 30 in Sao Francisco, the Tools for humanityThe company behind the World Coin World Coin Project has announced expansion to the United States since May 1. This moment turns on the company’s trajectory, until then mainly works Developing markets – To attract forms from ts tsahs and critics.
During the event ”Eventually“Altman’s Startup’s CEO Alex Blani took the stage with Alex Blani. The global ecosystem revealed that it would be implemented in six American cities at the beginning: Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco.” I believe that I should lead the most proud American, American innovation, without confronting it, “Altman said.
Expansion to the US market does not happen accidentally. The Change in the US Federal Administration, which is now under Trump’s administration, has brought a more favorable control scenario for cryptocurrencies. “We have good reasons to ensure that the product is working around the world before reaching the United States. Some of them are related to control changes,” said the tools for Humanity’s chief architect Adrian Ludwig.
The company has announced that it has launched a portable version of the Iris scanning device, Arb Mini. Unlike the actual spherical equipment of the basketball ball, the mini has a smartphone -like format, fitted with two large sensors in the front and designed to capture the specific samples of human iris.
Arb Mini (tools for humanity/reproduction)
I’m not a robot
The project began when Altman was “tightly distributed to as many people as possible” – the project began – evolved into the creation of metal orbits that scan the iris to verify unique humans. The World Protocol, then baptized, works with a double promice: separating humans from bots and distributing universal income in the future to AI.
“Iris is unusually stable for the rest of the life and it is virtually impossible to promote with current technology,” said Damian Kieran, the privacy director of the tools for humanity that developed technology behind the protocol. “The micro -Iris’ micro structure is complex. It is badly safe as a biometric identifier.”
The World ID, the “Digital Passport” Project Center, allows users to prove their humanity anonymous. The project has introduced a cryptocurrency called token WLD to ensure the network property, but the World App allows us to manage digital assets and transact.
At the event, the company announced a strategic partnership, Including a deal with a visa to start a physical (and digital) card connected to the world this year. This card allows users to spend their digital assets for any establishment, automatically converting cryptocurrencies during purchase.
Another important partnership has been signed Match GroupA compound that controls relationship applications Tinder E. Keys. The pilot program begins in Japan to find tinder users through the World ID, with the aim of dealing with fraud in dating applications. The company has announced the connection with the Kalshi, the Forecast Market Platform and it Gita To facilitate digital payments.
To expand its physical presence in the US, tools for humanity to build 10,000 orbs for the US market in the next 12 months, the current global offer is about five times. For this, it is setting up a new factory in Richards in Texas to mobilize equipment. In addition to own stores called “World Spaces”, Arbs also available in stores Razor.
This application is already operating in over 100 countries and is used by about 25 million. In October, the World 3.0 was launched, as well as “Super app” Vechat Chinese, in which a Mini apps Optimized to humans. Recently, a reward pilot program has been announced to developers, which has been distributed equal to $ 300,000 a month in WLD tokens for three months.
World app (tools for humanity/exposure)
Why Iris?
Although this process is relatively simple, sophisticated biometrics and encryption indicates the development of years. When a user is placed before the sphere, the device captures the detailed images of its iris. These images are immediately converted into a binary cod – a unique order of unique and zeros that represent the distinctive features of each human eye.
“We are not creating a dystopian database of eye images,” Kieran stressed. “What we do is turning these visual qualities into abstract numerical signs, which cannot be converted to the original image.”
This code, once produced, is subjected to the sophisticated process of cryptographic fragmentation. The company divides the code into multiple parts, legally stored separately as different data repositories operated by different entities.
“We always think that we are very surprised when the Panama papers are occupied and leaked. We are worried about this kind of situation, so we have no one place to concentrate all sensitive data. We have divided between different companies and organizations, to use the encryption separately. All need to be compromised.”
With millions of customers already registering, executives do not hide the universal aspirations of the project. Altman has already expressed the desire to scan the iris of all the residents of the planet. To get traction, this project has already shared with Reddit, Disord and Octa.
Control obstacles
World lawyers are not only a technical solution to identification verification in orbits, but also the basic part of a wide socio -economic transition. The Time The strategically of the project is similar to the growing anxiety with its effects on the faster and labor market of productive AI.
Despite its creators and the enthusiasm of investors – this year the company has only collected $ 115 million in risk capital financing – the global project faces hesitation and control obstacles. Officials in France, Germany and Kenya have already expressed concern about the company’s data collection methods.
In Brazil, the project faces the financial compensation of its biometric data collection of legal and control challenges and participants. The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has ordered the immediate discontinue of payments to the world ID accounts in the country, the basic principle of the Financial Benefit (LGDD) offered by the FREE consent of the General Data Protection Act (LGDD), which is the basic principle of the General Data Protection Act (LGDD).
Although this decision has been discontinued, the participants will continue to collect biometric data for the project, as the participants are not getting financial compensation.
AnPD’s position raises the debate about the concept of compliance in the LGPD and the description of the autonomy of the data subject. For power, providing financial incentives can cause implicit stress, and consent is not completely free. However, critics argued that the LGD had not cleared the offer of incentives, and that the Holder had a real autonomy to decide on the use of his data.
The possibility of making personal data is the extension of the right to information self -determination, which is protected by the LGDD, which allows individuals to use their information and share their information freely. In Brazil, we see similar methods such as free obedience or Wi-Fi programs instead of consent for data use.
*Journalist traveled at the invitation of accessories for humanity.
