Ever wonder if you\u2019re talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a solution straight out of sci-fi: scanning your iris to verify your identity. <\/p>\n
Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan spoke with Adrian Ludwig, Chief Security Officer and Chief Architect at Tools for Humanity, the company behind World\u2019s eye-scanning Orbs appearing around the globe. Bellan and Ludwig discuss building privacy-first identity verification, the open-source approach to biometric tech, and why proving humanity matters now more than ever. <\/p>\n
Listen to the full episode to hear: <\/p>\n
– How zero-knowledge proofs verify that you’re over 18 (or human) without revealing your location, browsing history, or other identifying information. <\/p>\n
– Why Tools for Humanity open-sourced the entire Orb \u2014 from hardware to firmware and software. <\/p>\n
– How Match Group, Event Pop, and other major platforms are partnering up to combat bot abuse. <\/p>\n
Subscribe to Equity on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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