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Worldcoin scans eyeballs and offers crypto. What to know about the project from OpenAI’s CEO

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Weeks after its international launch, Worldcoin is drawing the attention of privacy regulators around the world.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Worldcoin creates a “World ID” by capturing an image of a person’s irises. It’s a creation of Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and offers cryptocurrency worth $50 to $60 to get people to sign up.

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VERBATIM: Kenya’s government going so far as to shut down the service indefinitely. The international ID startup also is facing investigations in Europe over whether the biometric data that the company is collecting is truly secure. The goal of Worldcoin and the company backing it, Tools for Humanity, is to give people a form of identification that could never be stolen or duplicated.

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