The leap to "we need Sam Altman's Worldcoin to track everyone" as a solution seems like an extreme jump that skips many less privacy invasion, less expensive, less insane solutions.
>The bots’ goal is to bilk state and federal financial aid money by enrolling in classes, and remaining enrolled in them, long enough for aid disbursements to go out.<p>California and the federal government collects taxes and processes tax returns, right? Why can't payments be made through the same system? That'd probably reduce fraud by an order of magnitude.
When things go fully remote, it enables fully-remote fraud. Another example is North Koreans applying for jobs.<p>If we want remote work and remote education to work better (and I think we should), we will need better identity checking. Would it really be that hard to make something like using a notary scale?
I can't read the page because of the cloudflare blocker. They really are destroying the internet, and anyone who wants people to actually see their content needs to stop using them.
I don't know how "state and federal financial aid money" works. I always thought you paid for the classes upfront, then whatever state/federal program reimburses you. So, in my mind, I don't see how someone would come out ahead here. [confused]