Worldcoin suspended in Kenya as Europe probes crypto project
ChatGPT creator Sam Altman’s Crypto project , the controversial Worldcoin, has been placed on hiatus in Kenya — where hundreds of thousands have already signed up — amid concerns by the government over the collection of biometric data. “The Government is concerned by the ongoing activities of an organization calling itself ‘WORLD COIN’ which is involved in the registration of citizens through the collection of eyeball/iris data,” said Kenya’s Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday in a Facebook post. Inquiries and investigations by security, financial, and data protection agencies have already commenced, the press release said, to establish “the safety and protection of the data being harvested, and how the harvesters intend to use the data.” If these probes uncover “any risks to the general public whatsoever,” Worldcoin will remain suspended . Worldcoin is a dystopian eyeball-scanning crypto project. Orb stations (ball-shaped cameras) scan your iris to “distinguish hu...