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Worldcoin hit with temporary ban in Spain over privacy concerns
Spain's data protection authority has ordered Worldcoin to temporarily stop collecting and processing personal data from the market. It must also stop Spain's data protection authority has ordered Worldcoin to stop collecting and processing personal data from the market. It must also stop processing any data it previously collected there.
Controversy has dogged Worldcoin’s effort to sign people up to a proprietary biometric system whose makers claim will let them use a unique identifier, aka the World ID, to verify their humanness online. We contacted Tools for Humanity, the for-profit technology company that led the development of Worldcoin and which operates the World App, about the AEPD’s action — and to ask it to confirm whether or not it has stopped eyeball-scanning in Spain. In total, Worldcoin.org’s website currently lists nine countries where its eyeball scanning is available: Germany, Spain and Portugal in Europe; Argentina and Chile in LatAm; Japan and Singapore in Asia; Mexico and the U.S.
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