Quote from: vv181 on July 26, 2023, 11:43:15 AM

Quote from: makishart on July 26, 2023, 12:06:07 AM

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Britain's data regulator will examine Worldcoin, a project by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman where users provide their iris scans in exchange for a digital identification and free cryptocurrency.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/uk-data-watchdog-make-enquiries-worldcoin-crypto-project-2023-07-25/

That one is necessary and essential, I believe more countries that have strong and strict data privacy regulations/laws will follow to scrutinize the project.
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Quote from: https://decrypt.co/150473/france-germany-corrdinate-worldcoin-investigation

CNIL officials said the agency began an investigation and is now coordinating with the Bavarian state authority in Germany.

As I have been said, government entities starting to inspect this particular project. Recently, France and Germany started to collaborate in regard to world coin data collection practices. This kind of stuff is truly having a high-risk factor since it is sensitive data that is used as a main entry point and putting people's data to an entity beyond the government watchdog, albeit, they claimed it is encrypted.