Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin criticizes the one-per-person digital identification system being advanced by Sam Altman's World project, highlighting its inherent privacy risks. The project aims to create unique identities via biometric scans while ensuring anonymity through zero-knowledge proofs. However, Buterin argues that such a system compromises pseudonymity, potentially forcing users to operate under a single public identity. He cites the U.S. government’s recent policies mandating social media account disclosures as a concerning precedent for surveillance, advocating instead for a more flexible identity verification approach that allows for multiple accounts and greater privacy.
In a world of growing risk (eg. drones), taking away the option for people to protect themselves through pseudonymity has significant downsides.
Even if there's no public link between different accounts created under a single digital ID, a government could force someone to reveal their secret, so that they can see their entire activity.
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