Kenya Suspends WorldCoin Operations, Launches Investigation For Collecting Public Data
The Ministry of Interior of Kenya has suspended the operations of Sam Altman’s WorldCoin and launched an investigation into the company for collecting public data. Kenya’s Ministry of Interior and National Administration...
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Kenya’s Ministry of Interior and National Administration issued a statement earlier today saying that the government is concerned by the ongoing activities of an organization calling itself “WorldCoin” which is involved in registration of citizens through their eyeball/iris data. ...
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