Come for the jeans \u2014 stay for the eyeball scanning.<\/p>\n
A gleaming white device courtesy of billionaire Sam Altman\u2019s<\/a> secretive crypto startup is collecting data for \u201chuman verification\u201d inside a San Francisco Gap store \u2014 and the retailer isn\u2019t saying why, Gazetteer reported.<\/a><\/p>\n The bowling ball-sized orb, mounted on a wall inside the shop in the Marina District, collects biometric data by snapping images of people\u2019s faces with a \u201cglowing orange eye.\u201d<\/p>\n REUTERS<\/p>\n Sam Altman\u2019s secretive startup is collecting human data from a Marina District Gap store. instagram\/world<\/p>\n \u201cAt Gap, we believe in originality, authenticity \u2014\u00a0what makes us human,\u201d the plaque reads. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re partnering with World, to bridge the gap between humans and technology.\u201d<\/p>\n World, the Altman-backed startup<\/a> formerly known as WorldCoin, bills itself as \u201cthe real human network\u201d to distinguish humans from artificial intelligence bots. It aims to provide a \u201cworld ID\u201d alongside an app, blockchain and digital token, according to its website<\/a>. <\/p>\n The orb takes pictures of consenting participant\u2019s irises and faces in order to create a unique ID stored on their phones.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe California Post is coming soon. Sign up for updates.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet in early. Be the first to know about launch and home delivery.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The company reportedly set an ambitious goal of acquiring 1 billion users<\/a> \u2014 but only had a tiny fraction of that as of November with privacy concerns mounting its around data collection.<\/p>\n World has incentivized people to take part by issuing its Worldcoin cryptocurrency tokens\u00a0<\/a>to those who consent to have their faces scanned, offering the equivalent of $42. It drew scrutiny after reports that homeless and other vulnerable people<\/a> were exploited using the financial incentives.<\/p>\n The company set an ambitious goal of gaining 1 billion users. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n Gap and World did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n The orbs are found in North America, Colombia and parts of Asia, but regulatory challenges have stalled their expansion in some European countries.<\/p>\n A World consultant stationed at the Gap store emphasized that the orb generates an encrypted code that doesn\u2019t collect extra data about a person apart from verifying that they are human, the Gazetteer reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Come for the jeans \u2014 stay for the eyeball scanning. A gleaming white device courtesy of billionaire Sam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2080,22314,101,103,102,104,106,105,2280,9550,3586],"class_list":["post-145437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-gap","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-silicon-valley","tag-surveillance","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}