OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's plan for identity verification is raising serious questions about biometric privacy and the options companies pursue to replace easy-to-guess passwords.
World ID takes the idea of collecting a user's biometric data to a new — and possibly extreme — level.
World ID helps verify someone's identity in one of two ways: By phone number verification or via "the Orb," aFrom there, World ID users can choose to add either phone number or Orb verification to their private key identifiers . But app developers who let their users log in via World ID will choose what level of verification they require for their services.
Availability of the Orb is "mostly limited" to Argentina, Chile, India, Kenya, Portugal and Spain right now,
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