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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Hibaq Farah and Yassin El-Moudden

A new crypto firm wants to scan your eyeballs – should you look away?

Hibaq Farah gets her eyeball scanned using an orb by the cryptocurrency company Worldcoin.
Hibaq Farah gets her eyeball scanned by ‘a unique human’ using an ‘Orb’, verifying her to trade in cryptocurrency issued by Worldcoin. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Worldcoin wants to prove I am “actually human”. At least that is the explanation a staff member gives for a cryptocurrency venture scanning my eyeball in a London office building.

Without the optical scan, Worldcoin will not verify your “humanness” – you could be a robot and you won’t get any crypto. Welcome to financial security in the age of artificial intelligence.

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