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What the actual fuck.
Seriously how on Earth is that supposed to work?
Selling data on people is a lucrative business. Although it is a business and not UBI.
It's just a buzzword volly to get people to want to surrender more data. Actually insane premise lmao
I read about this a few years ago, and even saw them in a mall in Western EU.
The whole thing is just bio-data mining, and they started by preying on some poor regions in Africa