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German watchdog orders Sam Altman's biometric ID project World to delete data
The iris-scanning identity technology World has already been banned in some European countries over privacy concerns.
World, a biometrics identification project cofounded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has been told it did not meet European data protection rules and has been issued with a corrective measure. The company, formerly known as Worldcoin, scans irises and faces and uses this data to create a means of personal identification that can be used for activities online and prove that the user is human and not an artificial intelligence (AI) bot. “With today’s decision, we are enforcing European fundamental rights standards in favour of data subjects in a technologically demanding and legally highly complex case,” said BayLDA president Michael Will.
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