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U.S. companies back Sam Altman’s World ID even as much of the world pushes back (restofworld.org)
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The biometric ID project has been halted and investigated in multiple countries, but it recently partnered with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign to verify users.

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[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The last part is always bad, even if theoretically it may not be. When you have a hundred to a thousand terms and conditions being pushed on you for a near immediate signature, that's because they can add that one part being illegal doesn't make the rest unenforceable, and now instead of a single page of terms we have a hundred.

There is a reason the Courts made that rule of disqualifying the entire contract of such contracts if one part was illegal, and they have rules and tests for when that applies too in such cases to prevent any legitimate mistakes from cancelling an entire contract.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Standard contracts in the US include a severability clause anymore; I don't remember the last time I saw a contract without one (as a non-lawyer who reads everything I sign).

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Agreed, it's bad in that context. With proper consumer protection, you're just just one safeguard among many in exchange for a small benefit to actual custom-written contracts.