Kenya Suspends Worldcoin Operations Amid Privacy Concerns
Worldcoin faces further scrutiny over its iris-scanning project, despite over 2 million sign-ups worldwide.
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Worldcoin faces further scrutiny over its iris-scanning project, despite over 2 million sign-ups worldwide.
Co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Worldcoin launched last week, requiring users to give their iris scans in exchange for a digital ID and, in some countries, free cryptocurrency as part of plans to create a "identity and financial network".
The Collection and Use of Biometric Data at the Workplace policy paper was published by the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) in July.
Worldcoin will expand its operations to sign up more users globally and aims to allow other organisations to use its iris-scanning and identity-verifying technology, a senior manager for the company behind the project told Reuters. Co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Worldcoin launched last week, requiring users to give their iris scans in exchange for a digital ID and, in some countries, free cryptocurrency as part of plans to create a "identity and financial network". In sign-up sites around the world, people have been getting their faces scanned by a shiny spherical "orb...
Kenya’s data privacy regulator is warning the public about the use of “sensitive personal data” by WorldCoin, a cryptocurrency company founded in 2019 by Open AI’s co-founder Sam Altman.