Privacy concerns over use of biometrics as Worldcoin rolls out

The ambition is noble, but Worldcoin’s harvesting of biometric data is almost certain to give regulators concern.

A plan to increase economic opportunity, enable global democratic processes, preserve privacy and distinguish humans from machines in an age of AI sounds like a very good thing. But when the same plan can also be described as the use of humans as guinea pigs in a giant experiment requiring

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