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BUENOS AIRES—Argentines eyeing a financial boost are lining up by the thousands to have their irises scanned in exchange for a few crypto tokens as part of an online biometrics project under scrutiny in several countries.
“I did it because I don’t have any money, for no other reason,” 64-year-old martial arts teacher Juan Sosa told AFP after staring for a few seconds into a silver iris-scanning orb roughly the size of a bowling ball at one of 250 Worldcoin locations across Argentina. “Sometimes, to have a roof over your head, you need to do other things to be able to afford it. Otherwise, in Argentina today, you can’t afford a roof.”
Natalia Zuazo, a technology policy specialist and director of digital consulting firm Salto Agencia, told AFP Worldcoin was attracting most volunteers in “countries in crisis… the poorest countries, because people are more likely to enter into such transactions.” According to Zuazo, person-specific biometric data such as iris specs are “ultra-sensitive” and could theoretically be employed for nefarious identification purposes.
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