More Problems Building up for Iris-Scanning Crypto Firm Worldcoin

cryptonews.com:

The eyeball-scanning crypto startup Worldcoin has been hit with another setback – with a report alleging user anger with the company, and some accusing its architects of being “thieves.”

As reported recently, Worldcoin hasdecided to halt its operations in some seven countries after logistical hurdles began cropping up.

The firm, which has been backed by the likes of Coinbase, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and Andreessen Horowitz, has masterminded a project that will, it claims, distribute yet-unissued tokens to every person on the planet. It aims to do this by photographing every single human’s iris and imaging their eyes to prevent fraudulent token claims.

The company has already built up a database of hundreds of thousands of iris scans in almost two dozen countries, but per a report from BuzzFeed, some people are already unhappy with their experience with the project’s “Orb operators.”

The media outlet began its piece by reporting on the case of a 32-year-old African truck driver who had been “scanned” by the operators, wielding a “futuristic device” named “The Orb.”

When the outlet contacted him, he assumed that it was the operators, and replied:

“You are thieves. They robbed me of my money.”

Further, the media outlet claimed that the Orb operators are becoming equally “angry,” and the startup is now facing claims that it is trying to “amass millions of biometrics.”

The media outlet claimed it had interviewed a number of operators, both current and former, and had seen “confidential company presentations, Orb operator contracts, internal marketing materials,” as well as “more than 100 screenshots of discussions between Orb operators and Worldcoin executives.”

This material, it claimed, contained evidence that “hundreds of