An AI Company Offered $73 to Scan My Eyes

Can you put a price on the unique biometric data in your iris?

Rui Alves
The Generator
Published in
5 min readMar 28, 2024

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Retinal biometrics technology with man’s eye.
Image by Rawpixel on Freepik

Who hasn’t heard about Worldcoin? A global biometric cryptocurrency project currently collecting data from the human iris to (allegedly) facilitate online identity authentication.

Last year, I started seeing these futuristic stalls pop up like mushrooms on train…

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Rui Alves
The Generator

I'm a language teacher, linguist and published author (who joined the Army and worked for the EU). A publisher, digital ronin, musician and alchemist of sound.