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• AllerVie Health , a leading provider of allergy and immunology services in the United States, announces the addition of several new key management hires and corporate promotions.
• “AllerVie Health is thrilled to welcome our new team members and celebrate the promotions of our dedicated employees,” said Chris Roussos, CEO of AllerVie Health.
• Keeney has been an integral part of Premier’s success and a business partner for the AllerVie Health team.
• James Calderwood joins the AllerVie Health team as the new senior regional director of operations for the Premier Allergist region.

• CHICAGO, Sept. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Katten announced today that Joshua M. Altman has joined the firm as a partner in the Insolvency and Restructuring practice in Chicago.
• Altman represents major national and international companies throughout the lifecycle of both in-court and out-of-court restructuring processes.
• "Josh is a proven lawyer who understands the complexities and challenges all stakeholders face in restructuring matters," said Steven J. Reisman, co-chair of Katten's Insolvency and Restructuring practice.
• Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai.

• The silver spheres, known as “Orbs”, are part of the Worldcoin platform, which officially launched in July 2023 after an 18-month testing phase.
• Governments are taking note: the Worldcoin platform has already been suspended in Kenya, and is under investigation in several other countries.

Gaze into the Orb

• The Orb uses iris scans to uniquely identify a person.
• The Worldcoin website currently lists 60 Orb locations worldwide, particularly in Europe, Asia, North America and South America, and notes there will also be Orb “pop-ups”.
• At the time of writing, there appear to be no Orb locations in Australia, so people in Australia cannot earn WLD tokens “for being human”.

Cash for eyeballs jeopardises human rights

• Independent reporting suggests the promise of “free” cryptocurrency was a more common motive.
• In most locations, Worldcoin offers a “genesis grant” of 25 units of its WLD cryptocurrency when users scan their irises.
• (The value of WLD fluctuates, but the grant has been worth around US$50, or $A75, over the past month.)
• Offering money for sensitive data arguably makes privacy – a human right – a luxury only the wealthy can afford.

‘Cataloguing eyeballs’: the risks of using biometric data

• Unlike a driver’s licence or a passport, you cannot replace your iris if the data is compromised.
• Surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden has criticised Worldcoin for “cataloguing eyeballs”, and tweeted about the unacceptable risks:
  Don’t use biometrics for anything.
• In either case, the user must simply trust the company to delete the biometric data, or appropriately secure it against misuse.
• Journalist Eileen Guo also points out that Worldcoin has not yet clarified whether it still uses stored biometric data to train AI models and whether it has deleted biometric data collected during its test phase.

Regulatory action

• Regulators in several countries are taking action.
• The Kenyan government has now suspended Worldcoin’s activities, stating regulatory concerns surrounding the project “require urgent action”.

• The Altman Companies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BBX Capital Real Estate and BBX Capital, Inc. (OTCQX: BBXIA) (PINK: BBXIB), announced today that BBX Capital Real Estate and The Altman Companies had formed a joint venture with affiliates of Harbor Group International, LLC (“HGI”), a privately owned international real estate investment and management firm, to develop Altis Twin Lakes, in Orlando, Florida.
• This press release features multimedia.
• The Altman Companies expects construction of Altis Twin Lakes to commence in June 2023 and be completed in 2025.
• “Harbor Group International is a leading global real estate investment and management firm,” commented Seth Wise, CEO of The Altman Companies and President of BBX Capital Real Estate.