世界幣改變撥款計劃以資助其世界 ID 項目、去中心化身份和增長計劃的創新

生物辨識公司發布的新聞稿稱，世界幣已改變其資助計劃，以資助其世界 ID 項目、去中心化身分和成長計劃的創新。

Worldcoin has shifted their grant program to fund innovation in its World ID project, decentralized identity and growth initiatives, a recent release from the biometrics firm says.

生物辨識公司最近發布的一份報告稱，世界幣已改變其資助計劃，以資助其世界 ID 項目、去中心化身分和成長計劃的創新。

The key change is transitioning the grant program for innovation from a periodic structure to a “dynamic, continuous application system” designed to attract more proposals and streamline the application process. “No more waiting for specific grant waves,” the release says. “Applicants can now submit proposals at any time throughout the year.”

關鍵的變化是將創新資助計劃從定期結構轉變為“動態、連續的申請系統”，旨在吸引更多提案並簡化申請流程。新聞稿稱：“不再需要等待特定的撥款浪潮。” “申請人現在可以在一年中的任何時間提交提案。”

Other changes include rolling reviews for quicker turnaround on application results, an updated RFP list that “reflects the latest needs in the Worldcoin Tech Tree Stack,” and the introduction of “new categories” into the Worldcoin Foundation’s sphere of interest.

其他變化包括滾動審查以加快申請結果的周轉，更新的 RFP 清單“反映了世界幣技術樹堆疊中的最新需求”，以及將“新類別”引入世界幣基金會的興趣領域。

The firm, a project of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has lately been looking beyond its initial iris-biometrics-for-crypto model, pushing its World Chain blockchain and piloting face biometrics for authenticating its World ID digital identity. A recent announcement says the “Face Auth feature uses a reference image captured by the Orb during the user’s initial verification and stored only on the user’s own device, and encrypted with their World ID key.”

該公司是 OpenAI 執行長 Sam Altman 的一個項目，最近一直在超越其最初的虹膜生物識別加密模型，推動其 World Chain 區塊鏈並試點臉部生物識別技術來驗證其 World ID 數位身分。最近的一份公告稱，“面部驗證功能使用 Orb 在用戶初始驗證期間捕獲的參考圖像，僅存儲在用戶自己的設備上，並使用其 World ID 密鑰進行加密。”

Worldcoin and its parent company, Tools for Humanity (TFH) have also been making efforts to note their commitment to privacy, publishing a policy white paper that outlines four core privacy principles of security, anonymity, choice and control and transparency.

Worldcoin 及其母公司 Tools for Humanity (TFH) 也一直在努力兌現其對隱私的承諾，發布了一份政策白皮書，概述了安全、匿名、選擇和控制以及透明度四項核心隱私原則。

And its biometrics-scanning Orb devices keep popping up in new countries, recently rolling out in Poland, Malaysia and Guatemala.

其生物辨識掃描 Orb 設備不斷出現在新的國家，最近在波蘭、馬來西亞和瓜地馬拉推出。

Even so, the firm continues to be dogged by worried privacy regulators – for instance, in South Korea, where Worldcoin is facing a number of fines for collecting biometric information without a legal basis for processing, and failing to provide adequate info on purpose and retention, putting it in violation of the country’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). The fines are not large by tech tycoon standards – a little over a billion won, or around US$840,300, between Worldcoin and TFH.

即便如此，該公司仍然受到憂心忡忡的隱私監管機構的困擾——例如，在韓國，Worldcoin 因在沒有法律依據的情況下收集生物識別信息而面臨多項罰款，並且未能提供有關目的和保留的足夠訊息，違反了國家《個人資訊保護法》（PIPA）。以科技大亨的標準，罰款金額並不大——Worldcoin 和 TFH 的罰款金額略高於 10 億韓元，約 84 萬美元。

Still, the situation speaks to Worldcoin’s ongoing struggle to convince international regulators that it has anything but good intentions. Singapore’s privacy watchdog is hovering, keeping a close eye on Worldcoin’s activities. And South American regulators recently raised objections to the company’s privacy and biometric collection practices in Colombia and Argentina.

儘管如此，這種情況還是說明了世界幣一直在努力說服國際監管機構相信它的初衷絕非良好。新加坡的隱私監管機構正在密切關注世界幣的活動。南美監管機構最近對該公司在哥倫比亞和阿根廷的隱私和生物識別收集做法提出了反對。

One day Worldcoin might stop triggering red flags for data privacy officials. For now, it remains numerically successful – as of September, more than 93,000 South Koreans have downloaded Worldcoin’s World App – but has yet to win the trust of biometrics authorities.

有一天，世界幣可能會停止向資料隱私官員發出危險訊號。目前，它在數量上仍然很成功——截至 9 月份，已有超過 93,000 名韓國人下載了 Worldcoin 的 World App——但尚未贏得生物識別當局的信任。