Zoom will ask users to confirm they are human
This is planned to be done using World ID, developed by Sam Altman's company
During Zoom video calls, users who have passed World ID verification will be marked with a blue badge. Companies will be able to decide for themselves which conversations will require such identity confirmation.
Among the financial companies adopting the tool are Bain Capital and VanEck Funds. They plan to install Orb devices in their offices so employees can undergo iris scanning and register in the system if they have not done so already.
The technology uses three levels of verification: via government documents, through a selfie, and by matching the selfie with a biometric record created by Orb. World claims that encryption does not create a central database accessible to the company; however, this approach has sparked controversy among privacy advocates.
World ID was developed by World, a company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The system uses blockchain, and its protocol is published as open-source code.
