Worldcoin, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's bid to sew up the market for verifying humanness only started its official global rollout this week but it's already landed on the radar of European data protection authorities.
“Given Worldcoin is still in Beta, Orb availability is mostly limited to Argentina, Chile, India, Kenya, Portugal and Spain, as well as demos at blockchain and identity conferences.”
Funny that of all countries they could have used to launch that, 3 out of 4 are in the European Union.
They couldn’t choose a better place if they wanted privacy protection regulations to kick in and start asking embarrassing questions to them.
“Given Worldcoin is still in Beta, Orb availability is mostly limited to Argentina, Chile, India, Kenya, Portugal and Spain, as well as demos at blockchain and identity conferences.”
maybe it’s a good thing. It will hopefully make the tech more mature and privacy respecting