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Edward Snowden @Snowden

With respect, the docs say the "sequencer nodes" save the hashes (identifiers) produced by scanning people's eyes to your database. Apple does not, IIRC, catalog raw bio hashes—they're encrypted on-device (via enclave). The result of Worldcoin's "Phase 1" is an eyeball catalog. https://t.co/0sRhcXhEJs — PolitiTweet.org

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All that said, I definitely underestimated the visceral reaction to using biometrics for identity verification (e.g… https://t.co/FOtZ4VNxJq

Posted Oct. 23, 2021

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@Timccopeland No, it's a lot more complicated than that. — PolitiTweet.org

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The privacy techniques come into play in Phase 2. While they're clever and appreciated (ZKPs!), they can't address the trust problem of somebody snarfing biometrics. Maybe you don't save timestamps. Maybe you don't correlate bluetooth/wifi/whatever w enrollment. But you could. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 23, 2021