Annie Minoff
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239 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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If you agree to get your eye scanned, you become eligible to claim some free WorldCoin. WorldCoin's value fluctuates based on trading.
Worlds had a vision, a technology, and a hook to get people to sign up. Now, it just had to start scanning people's eyes. That's next.
World officially launched in July of 2023. But they didn't start in the U.S., Instead, they went just about everywhere else. Kenya, Argentina, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong. Operators scanned people's eyes in shopping malls and galleries, offering WorldCoin to those who participated. And they found plenty of takers.
Governments in some of those countries, though, were less than thrilled.
World says that orbs currently delete photos of participants' eyes. But in some countries, World has allowed people to later opt in and share their eye photos with the project to help train its algorithms. That has raised some issues. Hong Kong, for example, banned World after finding it was retaining iris images for up to a decade.
Authorities in Argentina accused World of having abusive user terms and launched investigations into it. And in Spain, officials accused the project of scanning children's eyes. Let's talk about some of the main concerns. What issues have critics raised with this project?
Alex Blania is a co-founder of The World Project. I asked him about some of the pushback that it's received. What's your response to governments who have been uncomfortable with how you've rolled this out in the past?
What do you say to someone who might be in an Orb store right now trying to make this decision? Do I hand over to you, Alex Blania, and your company this very sensitive biometric data? What would you say to them?
It feels sci-fi. And it's your eye.
Should governments be doing this? I mean, you're doing this as a company, but verifying people's identities, you know, ID documents, that's traditionally been the purview of government.
So you really do see this as kind of a global infrastructure project?
How do you imagine world is going to make money?
So Angus, World has just launched in the U.S. finally. Why now?
World is initially launching in Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, and of course, in San Francisco, where the orbs have already been booted up. The QR code is invalid. And that means that more people will soon be pondering a choice, to scan or not to scan. Did you have any reservations? Were you debating it at all?
Any reservations or fears?
That's all for today, Friday, May 9th. The Journal is a co-production of Spotify and The Wall Street Journal. Additional reporting in this episode from Sophie Codner. The show is made by Katherine Brewer, Pia Gadkari, Carlos Garcia, Rachel Humphries, Sophie Codner, Brian Knudson, Matt Kwong, Kate Leinbaugh, Colin McNulty,
Laura Morris, Enrique Perez de la Rosa, Sarah Platt, Alan Rodriguez-Espinosa, Heather Rogers, Pierce Singey, Jivika Verma, Jessica Mendoza, Lisa Wang, Catherine Whalen, Tatiana Zamise, and me, Annie Minoff, with help from Trina Menino. Our engineers are Griffin Tanner, Nathan Singapak, and Peter Leonard. Our theme music is by So Wiley.
Additional music this week from Catherine Anderson, Peter Leonard, Billy Libby, Bobby Lord, Emma Munger, Griffin Tanner, Nathan Singapak, Audio Network, and Blue Dot Sessions. Fact Checking by Mary Mathis. Thanks for listening. See you Monday.
Americans love their sneakers. These are blue Adidas Campus O's. I'm literally obsessed with these.
Most of those shoes are made in Asia, in three countries, Vietnam, Indonesia, and China.
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