Why Everyone Is Mad at Sam Altman’s Worldcoin

Why Everyone Is Mad at Sam Altman’s Worldcoin
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project, which promises to distribute a universal basic income (UBI) to global citizens willing to have their retina scanned, came in for a fresh round of incredulous backlash from privacy advocates after announcing new funding last week. Early info about Worldcoin first surfaced in June, and I eviscerated it for the ominous implications of gathering biometric data from the global poor (and the godawful optics of naming the Big Brother device at the center of it all the “Orb”).But it seems Sam Altman doesn’t read CoinDesk, because four months later the project is moving ahead basically unchanged.…