<story><title>Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23817147/kenya-worldcoin-suspended-sam-altman-eyeball-scanning</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrm4</author><text>Good, because this is an awful and stupid and terrible and ridiculous and exploitative idea.&lt;p&gt;On its no-pun-intended face.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s be clear, it does not matter at ALL if Sam Altman or anyone presently involved has good intentions; the goal is biometric crypto, and biometrics -- which is to say, unalienable IDs, is by default an awful idea and should probably be dismissed outright.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcsommer</author><text>Why are unalienable IDs an awful idea? Unalienable IDs seem to me to be the &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; of human societies. Before technology, everyone had &amp;quot;unalienable IDs&amp;quot; -- if you saw Bob, it was Bob.</text></comment>
<story><title>Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23817147/kenya-worldcoin-suspended-sam-altman-eyeball-scanning</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrm4</author><text>Good, because this is an awful and stupid and terrible and ridiculous and exploitative idea.&lt;p&gt;On its no-pun-intended face.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s be clear, it does not matter at ALL if Sam Altman or anyone presently involved has good intentions; the goal is biometric crypto, and biometrics -- which is to say, unalienable IDs, is by default an awful idea and should probably be dismissed outright.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinventullo</author><text>I do think this project sounds scary and dystopian, but aren’t SSN’s effectively unalienable IDs?</text></comment>