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German watchdog orders Sam Altman’s biometric ID project World to delete data (www.euronews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by grid11@lemy.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

World has appealed the decision and has asked regulators to provide judicial clarity on whether the processes and, in particular, the Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) deployed by World Network meet the legal definition for anonymisation in the EU.

So… their legal defense is sealioning?

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair cryptography can make a lot of that kind of private data inaccessible

But still, this particular project is stupid and being able to use just biometrics for access is idiotic. Generating secret keys from data that is fully exposed to the public is extremely moronic.

Biometric scanners only protect against lazy attackers, unless you literally have an armed guard next to the scanner to enforce correct scans without shenanigans