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Crucial week for Worldcoin amid EU privacy scrutiny
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Crucial week for Worldcoin amid EU privacy scrutiny

The next few weeks could be decisive for Worldcoin, the controversial eyeball-scanning cryptocurrency venture co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Following a series of privacy complaints, the company’s operations remain largely halted across the European Union, including in France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. Currently, Germany is the only EU market where Worldcoin is still scanning eyeballs, […]

Portuguese data watchdog halts Worldcoin’s iris-scanning project
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Portuguese data watchdog halts Worldcoin’s iris-scanning project

The data protection authority of Portugal, known as the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados, has taken action against Sam Altman’s iris-scanning project, Worldcoin, by issuing an order to halt the collection of biometric data within the country’s borders for 90 days. This directive, announced via an official statement on Tuesday, marks a significant development […]

Spanish Court upholds temporary ban on Worldcoin's iris-scanning project
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Spanish Court upholds temporary ban on Worldcoin’s iris-scanning project

Spain’s High Court on Monday, upheld the temporary suspension of Worldcoin’s iris scanning, dealing a further blow to a scheme that has raised privacy concerns across many countries. The court rejected the proprietors of Worldcoin’s appeal, ruling that the “safeguarding of the public interest” must take precedence. Worldcoin, which was co-founded in 2019 by OpenAI […]

Worldcoin challenges ban in Spain
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Worldcoin challenges ban in Spain

By Alex Omenye   Worldcoin’s German subsidiary, a key player in Sam Altman’s crypto blockchain digital identity venture, is reported to have initiated a legal challenge against a suspension order imposed by Spain’s data protection authority, the AEPD. The AEPD recently directed Worldcoin to halt the scanning of individuals’ eyeballs and cease further processing of […]

Portuguese data watchdog halts Worldcoin’s iris-scanning project
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Worldcoin withdraws services in India, Brazil, France

Worldcoin has discontinued its Orb-verification service in India, Brazil, and France a few months after bringing its helmet-shaped eyeball-scanning gadget to the countries. Worldcoin development foundation, Tools for Humanity, revealed to TechCrunch in a statement that it has brought the Orb to numerous markets this year for “limited time access.” Still, it’s unexpected that they […]

Portuguese data watchdog halts Worldcoin’s iris-scanning project
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Worldcoin to set up ID network

The cryptocurrency initiative started by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Worldcoin, intends to create a global ID network similar to India’s Aadhaar biometric ID system, a senior employee told Reuters. “A really good analogy for the type of impact something like Worldcoin can have is the Aadhaar project in India,” Worldcoin’s head of product, engineering and […]

Spanish Court upholds temporary ban on Worldcoin's iris-scanning project
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Kenya demands suspension of Worldcoin’s domestic activities over privacy concerns

A Kenyan parliamentary committee on Monday demanded that the country’s information technology body suspend Worldcoin’s domestic operations. Early in August, the project was put on hold by the government due to privacy concerns regarding the scanning of individuals’ irises in return for a digital ID, which was intended to establish a new “identity and financial […]

Portuguese data watchdog halts Worldcoin’s iris-scanning project
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Worldcoin says iris scan is safe amid scrutiny

Worldcoin has disclosed that the data of prospective users that was captured by the orb is safe as it is deleted immediately. This is in response to the concerns of experts who worried that the data would end up in the wrong hands. On a visit to one of the pop-up centres, a BBC journalist […]

Spanish Court upholds temporary ban on Worldcoin's iris-scanning project
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Worldcoin disregards initial directive to cease iris scans in Kenya – Report

The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner had instructed Worldcoin’s parent company, Tools for Humanity, to stop collecting personal data months before Kenya finally outlawed iris scans by Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency venture. According to a letter sent to Worldcoin and seen by TechCrunch, the ODPC had directed the cryptocurrency company to halt iris scans, the […]

Spanish Court upholds temporary ban on Worldcoin's iris-scanning project
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Kenya police raid Worldcoin facility

Kenyan law enforcement officers searched a Worldcoin facility near Nairobi over the weekend. The raid, according to reports, takes place as the contentious cryptocurrency project that ChatGPT CEO Sam Altman unveiled last month is under more and more scrutiny. Remember that privacy advocates from all over the world have voiced concerns regarding the collecting of […]

Portuguese data watchdog halts Worldcoin’s iris-scanning project
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Worldcoin’s $50 eye-scaning orb draws millions of users

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s identity project, WorldCoin, has gotten millions of people waiting up around orbs to get their irises scanned. The project which has elicited interest from people who want to make easy $50 has raised concerns from around the globe with the European Union asking questions about privacy and Kenya banning the project […]