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Welcome to CryptoGod-1's blog on all things crypto. In this post I will be looking at the news and impact of the Worldcoin Orb software becoming open-source.
Worldcoin Orb Software
The controversial Worldcoin Orb has open-sourced some of its eyeball-scanning machinery according to a blog post on the 22nd of March 2024. As part of the post they noted it has been done to help verify the company's claims in regards to data privacy.
Developers can now review the software components of the Worldcoin Orb on Github, where it has been made publicly available under a MIT/Apache 2.0 dual license. Previously there had been hardware and iris recognition repositories made available in January 2023 and December 2023 respectively as part of the organisations attempts at making its process more transparent. The Worldcoin foundation noted:
“Their public availability marks significant progress in making the Orb’s image processing transparent and its privacy claims verifiable.”
The crypto project Worldcoin (WLD) was created to distribute digital tokens to every human being on the planet through the use of iris scanning as identification in its creation of a universal basic income scheme. Given the emergence of artifical intelligence or duplicates / catfish, the iris scanning is intended to verify humanness and that each user of the network is actually a one-of-a-kind person
The foundation has been busy placing a vast network of Worldcoin Orbs throughout the globe while encouraging people to peer into the orb, have their iris scanned, verify their identity, and receive tokens.
The Worldcoin foundation has put privacy and security as top priorities in the Orb’s construction, noting how "One privacy-critical step is sending individual data from the Orb to World App for a feature called ‘Personal Custody’. Individuals can use this self-custodied data, for example, for Face Authentication in World App.” The foundation also noted how they may reduce the frequency in which users must visit the orb to re-verify their identity in the future.
A white-box audit report by Trail of Bits found that the Orb does not collect any personally identifiable information from its users besides an Iris code. It also said that it collects no information from users’ devices that have the World App installed.
The foundation also noted:
“Further audits are underway and, combined with open sourcing, reflect the Foundation’s aim to maintain a continuously high level of transparency around privacy and security.”
While the attempt to make the system more transparent may quell some doubts among potential users, there has always been a stigma associated with Worldcoin and its potential data privacy issues. The ominous nature of “orbs” and “eyeball scanning” has received massive criticism from the crypto community for what seemed like a massive privacy invasion/surveillance tool.
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