‘I sold my iris; now what?’: What drives Brazilians to hand over their unique, personal data

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‘I sold my iris; now what?’: What drives Brazilians to hand over their unique, personal data

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Technology@programming.devEnglish · 1 month ago

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Residents of São Paulo's outskirts explained why they chose to give over their personal data to the World ID project. Around 400,000 Brazilians sold their iris data for cryptocurrency.

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