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Title: Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning ID Project Launches In US

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/201237/sa...

Sam Altman's eye-scanning identity project, now called World, officially
launched in the U.S. with six in-person registration sites. CNBC reports:
Here's how it works: You go up to an Orb, a spherical biometric device, and
it spends about 30 seconds scanning your face and iris, then creates and
stores a unique "IrisCode" for you verifying that you're a human and that
you've never signed up before. Then you get some of the project's
cryptocurrency, WLD, for free, and you can use your World ID as a sign-in
with integrated platforms, which currently include an open API integration
with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify and Discord. Starting Thursday, the
company is opening six flagship U.S. retail locations where people can sign
up to have their eyeball scanned: Austin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Nashville,
Miami and San Francisco. At an event in San Francisco on Wednesday, the
venture announced two high-profile partnerships: Visa will introduce the
"World Visa card" this summer, available only to people who have had their
irises scanned by World, and the online dating giant Match Group will begin a
pilot program testing out World ID and some age verification tools with
Tinder in Japan.

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