Should you trust Tools for Humanity’s iris scanning orbit?

Have you ever wondered whether you are talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion in deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a solution straight out of science fiction: Scan your iris to verify your humanity.

Today on TechCrunch justice Podcast, Rebecca Belan spoke with Adrian Ludwig, Chief Security Officer and Chief Engineer at Tools for humanitythe company behind the world’s eye-scanning orbs that appear all over the world. Bellan and Ludwig discuss building identity verification privacy-first, the open source approach to biometric technology, and why proof of humanity is more important now than ever.

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Correction: An earlier version stated that the World Orb scans the iris to verify identity, not humanity.