World Offers 2-for-1 Concert Tickets in Exchange for Retinal Scans, Partnering with Jared Leto and Sam Altman
By
Justin Caffier
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Summary
World (formerly Worldcoin), the biometric authentication company co-founded by Sam Altman, is partnering with Jared Leto's band Thirty Seconds to Mars to offer 2-for-1 concert tickets to fans who verify their humanity by submitting to retinal scans. The promotion is framed as a solution to ticket scalper bots, but raises significant privacy concerns as it trades biometric data for concert access. The article critically examines this Faustian bargain, noting World's parent company has been hemorrhaging talent in a rocky first quarter.
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· 3 pulledWorld, the company that's taken up that mantle, proposes a Faustian bargain tailor-made for our present dystopia in order to provide this rejuvenated online experience: retinal scans.
Despite a rocky first quarter that saw its parent company hemorrhaging talent, World's new...
World, the humanity-authentication company that has you stare into its orbs, is offering 2-for-1 Thirty Seconds to Mars tickets to anyone willing to prove their humanity by sharing biometric data.
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