世界币改变拨款计划以资助其世界 ID 项目、去中心化身份和增长计划的创新

生物识别公司发布的一份新闻稿称，世界币已改变其资助计划，以资助其世界 ID 项目、去中心化身份和增长计划的创新。

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.

生物识别公司最近发布的一份报告称，世界币已改变其资助计划，以资助其世界 ID 项目、去中心化身份和增长计划的创新。

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.”

关键的变化是将创新资助计划从定期结构转变为“动态、连续的申请系统”，旨在吸引更多提案并简化申请流程。新闻稿称：“不再需要等待特定的拨款浪潮。” “申请人现在可以在一年中的任何时间提交提案。”

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.

其他变化包括滚动审查以加快申请结果的周转，更新的 RFP 列表“反映了世界币技术树堆栈中的最新需求”，以及将“新类别”引入世界币基金会的兴趣领域。

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.”

该公司是 OpenAI 首席执行官 Sam Altman 的一个项目，最近一直在超越其最初的虹膜生物识别加密模型，推动其 World Chain 区块链并试点面部生物识别技术来验证其 World ID 数字身份。最近的一份公告称，“面部验证功能使用 Orb 在用户初始验证期间捕获的参考图像，仅存储在用户自己的设备上，并使用其 World ID 密钥进行加密。”

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) 也一直在努力兑现其对隐私的承诺，发布了一份政策白皮书，概述了安全、匿名、选择和控制以及透明度四项核心隐私原则。

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

其生物识别扫描 Orb 设备不断出现在新的国家，最近在波兰、马来西亚和危地马拉推出。

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，该公司仍然受到忧心忡忡的隐私监管机构的困扰——例如，在韩国，Worldcoin 因在没有法律依据的情况下收集生物识别信息而面临多项罚款，并且未能提供有关目的和保留的足够信息，违反了国家《个人信息保护法》（PIPA）。按照科技大亨的标准，罚款并不高——Worldcoin 和 TFH 的罚款金额略高于 10 亿韩元，约合 840,300 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.

尽管如此，这种情况还是说明了世界币一直在努力说服国际监管机构相信它的初衷绝非良好。新加坡的隐私监管机构正在密切关注世界币的活动。南美监管机构最近对该公司在哥伦比亚和阿根廷的隐私和生物识别收集做法提出了反对。

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，世界币可能会停止向数据隐私官员发出危险信号。目前，它在数量上仍然很成功——截至 9 月份，已有超过 93,000 名韩国人下载了 Worldcoin 的 World App——但尚未赢得生物识别当局的信任。