Worldcoin now tries to verify official documents and negotiates with the government to add Argentina

Worldwide networkthe company formerly known as world currencyannounced a plan to improve its project global humanities verification: expand World ID in collaboration with governments to create digital identities in an app. It is the way that, they understand, will allow us to determine in the future whether the user with whom we interact on the Internet is a human or an AI-based chatbot.

The key word is climbinga concept that will be repeated during the day of presentation of the new functions held this Thursday in San Francisco, at which he was present Clarion. With just 6 million verified users worldwide (more than a third of them from Argentina), the company founded by Sam Altmann AND Alex Blania We are already thinking about how to operate when billions of users have joined the project.

That’s why the heart of this new version is integrate a series of functions into the World App, an application that every user will have on their phone and which will serve different functionalities mounted on the decentralized platform that World is building.

Among those announced at the conference, a stands out virtual wallet which enables instant global transactions of crypto assets. Also an App Store for developers to create their own games. Humanity verification, they say, will help prevent the use of Deep Fake tools in videoconferencing scams, a type of crime that is tentatively starting to thrive.

But perhaps one of the most innovative aspects is the implementation of the so-called World ID in collaboration with several governments. to be able to upload the official identifiers issued by the State into the Mondo app. Among the countries that are negotiating to continue this integration is Argentina, as company sources confirmed Clarion.

The world and the Argentine government are on the same page. Javier Milei met with the company’s general director, Sam Altman, while the other founding partner, Alex Blania, was in the country a few months ago and yesterday praised the management of the libertarian company: “We feel comfortable talking to them “he said before the consultation. this medium.

Your passport on the phone

Although the power to determine an individual’s identity has always been a monopoly of states, World indicates this They do not have in their portfolio the possibility to replace them in this task. Just lend them their infrastructure built on the Ethereum blockchain so they can work together.

“The idea is that for the first time your legal identity with the new credentials World ID has. The world is not designed to replace governments, passports or anything else. This is an extremely important role that they have,” says Tiago Sada, head of product, engineering and design at Tools for Humanity (the consortium managing the World project).

As he commented in a hand-to-hand debate, the feedback received from different governments was interesting to see how to combine the humanity tests carried out by the company with official documents.

One of the principles that World works on is to aim to take care of user privacy, ensuring that the app responds to verification requests only with the correct and necessary information. The example provided is for the case of requirements to know whether a user is over 18 or under. Currently, the DNI is used, which also contains other data such as full name, address or birthday. For World, the ideal would be for a request like this to be answered only yes or no.

The system is designed to act with those documents that contain an NFC chip which can be scanned by your phone. One of them is the passport. Once finished, this information is stored on the device to be used. It is not uploaded to any cloud or server, it is stored locally on your phone.

“One thing we’re working on with governments is that regardless of whether they print IDs on a piece of cardboard, they can also issue them directly into World App,” Sada says.

The most advanced cases of this integration are Malaysia and Taiwan, where there are agreements whereby governments directly process credentials without having to go through a physical version.

However, Altman and his team mentioned about twenty countries where negotiations are underway, including Argentina.

“We are in negotiations with Argentine officials. We cannot specify the implementation dates but It’s a topic that has been discussed in different conversations,” says a company spokesperson when asked.

A key point to massify this access is that the official document can be uploaded to the World App without the need to validate the user’s identity with iris scanning. From World they also indicate that the system is designed to make it impossible to have the IDs of two different people on the same device.

World ID 3.0, as they called it, offers greater privacy protection with AMPC (Advanced Multiparty Computing)

Among the countries that appear in the list shown by World are the United States, the United Kingdom, Austria, Romania, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand or Turkey .

According to what the company points out, another issue that has been addressed by the various governments they have dealt with is the possibility of using the platform to direct social assistance more efficiently to the most unprotected sectors without going through intermediaries.

“The distribution of social programs is a place where there is a lot of inefficiency, a lot of corruption and a lot of money is lost. Instead of going to the people who need it, they go to those who have false identities. Governments are very interested in this, being able to use World ID anonymously to check if someone has received help and that each person only does it once,” he says.