OpenAI CEO’s Eyeball-Scanning Digital ID Project, Worldcoin, Hopes To Partner With OpenAI & Has Had Conversations With PayPal
Worldcoin, a digital ID project based on biometrics, namely, eyeball scanning, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is eying (no pun) partnerships not only with OpenAI, but also PayPal, reports say.
However, these movements are not accompanied by any clarity for now, an example of this being another Worldcoin co-founder and its CEO Alex Blania refusing to make a direct announcement regarding the deal with OpenAI.
Blania at the same time confirmed that the company (specifically, Tools for Humanity, the main Worldcoin developer) is talking to PayPal – but the payments transactions giant is currently not commenting on any of this.
The general trend, albeit on a much smaller scale (despite the grandiose ambitions) seems to be the tried-and-tested Big Tech path of acquisitions or collaborations in a particular space in order to consolidate the grip on a market.
Reports note that Tools for Humanity previously started working with Okta, an identity and access management company, while just this April, it bought Ottr Finance, a startup developing digital wallets.
This is happening as Worldcoin is facing pushback from regulators in multiple countries around the world, who are mostly concerned about the enrollment standards (such as age verification) and data storage policies the controversial company has in place.
Worldcoin’s stated effort is to have “every person in the world” in its ID service, where the transactional nature of the thing is users giving up the sensitive biometric data contained in the irises of their eyes in exchange for what some might call “cryptocurrency change.”
The ultimate goal is to create the biggest “human identity and financial network” in the world, and the promise is, no surprise there – that this can and will be done while at the same time “preserving privacy.”
But it is precisely privacy fears that are underpinning the scrutiny over Worldcoin’s operations, and so its plans have been hitting some snags in places as far apart as Hong Kong and Spain, Malaysia, and Portugal.
However, Blania has shared that Worldcoin is taking a “proactive” approach in dealing with regulators, that is – it is hoping that compromising on some features will render the operation as a whole sustainable.
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NATO Chief Confirms Ukraine Will Join The Alliance
NATO CHIEF Jens Stoltenberg has confirmed that Ukraine will become a member of NATO. The NATO Secretary General made the announcement during a surprise visit to Kiev where he discussed the ongoing conflict and future […]
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Your Globalist Bank is an Active Enemy Combatant Plotting Against You in a financial Civil War & Political Purge
Part of the Biden regime’s plan to “save democracy” includes a full-on collaboration with financial institutions to spy on and target their political opposition. Congressional Republicans are currently investigating at least 13 financial institutions that have colluded with the federal government to surveil Americans who show indications of “extremism.” These surveillance operations violate the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, targeting Americans with no warrant and no due process, under nefarious pretenses.
This federal government’ unconstitutional collaboration with financial institutions began in the lead-up to and the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 false flag operation at the U.S. Capitol, which ensnared innocent Americans who were questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 electoral process and its results.
Feds working with banks to surveil, profile, convict Biden’s political opposition
Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) chair of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is leading the investigation into these high crimes and misdemeanors. The banks suspect in this investigation include the following: Bank of America, Chase, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Citi Bank, Truist, Charles Schwab, HSBC, MUFG, PayPal, Santander, Standard Chartered and Western Union.
According to the investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) were weaponized and colluded with financial institutions to go after “pro-gun” and religious Trump supporters in the wake of January 6, 2021.
The government’s unconstitutional operation seeks to silence and intimidate Americans for their religious and political views. The banks spied on private transactions. Searches that include the terms “MAGA” and “TRUMP” were flagged. If an individual purchased a Bible, they were also flagged for “extremism.” FinCEN even suggested that banks review transactions at sporting and recreational supplies stores such as Cabela’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Bass Pro Shops in order to detect customers who might be “extremists.”
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Treasury distributed the surveillance instructions. Officials at the U.S. Treasury circulated a memo instructing financial institutions how to spot indicators of “extremism” around January 6, 2021. These indicators included individuals who made travel plans to Washington D.C. or individuals who purchased religious texts. When testifying before lawmakers in February, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen played dumb about the surveillance instructions and the spying operation.
“This kind of warrant-less financial surveillance raises serious concerns about the federal government’s respect for Americans’ privacy and fundamental civil liberties,” Jim Jordan wrote in a letter to Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen.
Suspicious Activity Report used as political weapon against hundreds of innocent Americans
During the hearings, Peter Sullivan, the FBI’s former financial sector liaison, admitted that the FBI and FinCEN provided the banks with “thresholds” for which a suspicious activity report should raise. The banks spied on consumers’ transaction history, looking for keywords and purchases.
By January 17, 2021, the FBI and FinCEN had already received private data on 211 individuals who were targeted by Bank of America in a Suspicious Activity Report. When these reports were further investigated, there was no allegation of federal criminal conduct. When Bank of America was requested to send over any “weapons-related transactions,” only four of the 211 cases qualified, prompting “criminal background queries.”
Then, the FBI deployed federal agents to investigate these four individuals, which led to “a number of leads” on additional persons of interest. These leads were eventually pulled from the investigation, according to then-Section Chief of the FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Operations Selection Steve Jensen. It was determined that the leads “lacked allegations of federal criminal conduct.” In other words, these Americans were innocent and were being unconstitutionally profiled and harassed by a rogue federal government and surveillance apparatus.
The Biden regime spied on, profiled and targeted Americans in an attempt to suppress their political and religious views. By conscripting the FBI, the Biden regime displayed nefarious intent to intimidate and charge innocent individuals with crimes that they did not commit. In an attempt to suppress and eradicate their political opposition, it’s more clear than ever that the Biden regime is a communist regime, and this surveillance operation is reminiscent of Stalin’s Great Purge in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
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DNA, Fingerprints, Eyeball Scans, Facial Recognition & Voiceprints: Vietnam’s New Biometric ID Raises Fears
HANOI, Vietnam (LifeSiteNews) — Communist Vietnam’s amended 2023 Law on Identification, which comes into effect on July 1, will mandate iris scans, fingerprints, and facial images as biometric data to be collected and stored for the registration of Vietnamese identity cards.
According to Le Tan Toi, Vietnam’s chairman of the National Defense and Security Committee, an individual’s iris does not change over time and is a better basis for identity verification than other characteristics, like fingerprints, that may be damaged or altered.
Based on the amended law, government authorities will have the ability to key in citizens’ biometric details, including records of blood type, into the national population database under the management of the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security (MPS), the national police force.
Moreover, the new law stipulates that Vietnamese police can start the voluntary collection of DNA information and voice samples of citizens from age 14 for use in Vietnam’s new identification system.
Currently police are required to collect only citizens’ fingerprints and facial images when the latter are registering new identity cards. However, as per the amended law, the MPS will now encrypt and store citizens’ information in the chip-based identity cards, which the authorities began issuing to all citizens in 2022.
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The revised law will also empower criminal investigation agencies to gather the biometric data of people of interest to them. Vietnam’s MPS will exclusively develop and manage the country’s population database.
Critics of the amended law, who include some lawmakers in the Vietnamese National Assembly, voiced their fears over risks of privacy and potential data violations after authorities announced their plan to gather and store citizens’ sensitive personal data. As iris scans and DNA samples are unique to individual citizens, the police force in communist Vietnam could use these details for surveillance purposes.
Additionally, cybercriminals could use biometric data for identity theft and other related crimes.
Adrianus Warmenhoven, a cybersecurity expert at NordVPN, told TechRadar in 2023 that “all recorded data is hackable… [B]iometric information is a valuable target for cybercriminals, and hacking of this type of data becomes a popular way of identity theft.”
However, many of us are already at risk of identity theft. As Warmenhoven added:
While we are the owners of our own faces and voices, we are not the only ones with access to them. Over the years of being active social media users, people [have] left so much biometric data that with the current capabilities of artificial intelligence to create deep fakes, it becomes a weapon against our privacy.
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In 2023, Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications proposed a draft decree declaring that social media accounts must be authenticated with users’ real names and phone numbers to be able to post, livestream, comment, or participate in various types of online interaction.
Although the proponents justified the draft decree, saying that it would help authorities “govern internet services”, naysayers lambasted authorities for attempting to monitor government critics and dissenters.
Globally, Vietnam ranks relatively low in safeguarding citizens’ rights and freedoms. The country scored only 22 out of 100 in the Freedom on the Net report for 2022. Vietnam’s 2018 cybersecurity law significantly restricted online free speech, and the Freedom on the Net 2023 report classified Vietnam’s internet as “not free”, declaring that the Vietnamese government has “continued to enforce stringent controls over the country’s online environment” while “activists and ordinary people are often punished for their online activities.” In addition, the communist country ranked 178 out of 180 in the 2023 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index ranking.
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AfD Lawmaker Calls For Border Pushbacks as Illegal Immigration Into Germany Hits 5-Year High in Q1 of 2024
Illegal immigration into Germany reached a five-year high in the first quarter of 2024, the latest government figures show.
The federal government admitted its failure to combat the ongoing migration crisis in its written response to a question by AfD lawmaker Martin Hess, as seen by German news outlet Junge Freiheit.
It revealed that up to April 1, a total of 20,000 illegal border crossings into Germany were registered by federal police, up 2 percent for the same period last year.
In March, the last month for which figures are available, a significant increase in illegal migrant activity was recorded at the German-Polish border where the largest number of illegal border crossings took place.
A total of 1,646 irregular crossings were detected from Poland into Germany for March, up from 911 cases in the previous month. Illegal crossings from Czechia also rose from 509 to 644. In total, 7,079 cases of illegal border activity were recorded in March, up from 5,993 in February.
The figures are contrary to remarks made by Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser last month who told the regional Funke Mediengruppe newspaper that the government’s crackdown on illegal immigration was a success.
“Because of our border controls, we have arrested 708 suspected smugglers and stopped 17,600 migrants crossing the border illegally since October,” Faeser told the news group.
“Those who do not need our protection cannot come to Germany, or should be asked to leave Germany even more quickly,” she added.
The figures were only published following a request by Martin Hess, an MP for the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Commenting on the government’s revelation in a social media post on Tuesday, Hess wrote, “While Nancy Faeser is selling the border controls as a success in the media, the figures show that the situation is still not under control. Illegal entries have also increased compared to the same period last year.”
The conservative lawmaker claimed that border officials were lacking “an essential tool for combating illegal migration on the ground” and called for federal police officers to “finally be given the opportunity to turn back illegal immigrants at the borders.”
He demanded urgent fundamental change in Germany’s migration policy and accused the left-liberal coalition government in Berlin of having “no interest in using all available means to combat mass immigration.”
“Instead, she [Faeser] wants to appease the public with symbolic politics. This is pure election campaign tactics. The upper limit for illegal immigrants must be zero. And for this to happen, a paradigm shift in migration policy is essential.”
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UK Sends First Migrant to Rwanda—But it’s Purely Voluntary
The first failed asylum seeker has left the UK for Rwanda—but not under Rishi Sunak’s recently passed Rwanda Act. Instead, the migrant left voluntarily, and was paid to do so.
The unnamed individual left the UK on a commercial flight on Monday after being paid around £3,000 (€3,500) to relocate. This happened under the terms of a deal with the African nation that is separate from the new state powers set out in the Safety of Rwanda Act.
The Sun reports that the man, who is of African origin, claimed asylum in the UK last year but was rejected. He then accepted an offer to travel to Rwanda.
Former UKIP and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said people should not be “conned” by the removal.
“This African man, who did not even cross the Channel, was refused asylum and has voluntarily accepted £3,000 + free board,” he posted on X. “It won’t stop the boats.”
However, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch said the deportation was an important start:
The easiest cases will be the first ones. I do think that we should be trumpeting it because one of the big arguments about this scheme was that Rwanda wasn’t a safe country, and actually people are volunteering to go there. I know people who go there on holiday, a lot of people have been there.
Last month, after much parliamentary back-and-forth between the House of Commons and House of Lords, the British Parliament finally passed the Safety of Rwanda Act which is designed to send asylum seekers to the African country for processing by declaring it safe.
However, there are concerns that flights under the scheme will be grounded by legal challenges. The Times reported last month that the FDA union, which represents civil servants, is expected to launch a judicial review, arguing that the Act’s power to disregard interim rulings from the European Court of Human Rights would effectively force officials to break international law.
In 2022, a flight to send asylum seekers to the country was cancelled due to an intervention from the ECHR.
The news comes as the Home Office prepares to detain the first asylum seekers for processing in Rwanda. However, as was reported earlier this week, only 2,145 of the 5,700 migrants identified for removal can be located for detention.
Officials insisted that the remainder had not absconded but simply “cannot be immediately located.” However, Home Office sources told The Times that the threat of deportation may now “outweigh” incentives of free accommodation and a £49 weekly allowance that are offered to migrants to stop them absconding.
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