Worldcoin onboarded nearly 2 million users worldwide during its trial phase.
The Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, who has played a key role in suspending Worldcoin operations, told the House committee that the government is concerned by Worldcoin’s activities registering citizens and collecting iris data, all of which he claims pose serious security risks.Apart from the parliamentary committee, the Worldcoin project has faced an all-out rejection from the various regulatory bodies in Kenya.
Worldcoin, a digital ID-focused crypto project that offers its native cryptocurrency, WLD coin, for scanning the iris of users,. The project onboarded nearly 2 million users during its trial phase. However, as the project launched for the public in more than a dozen countries, various reports of the project’s controversial tactics surfaced, prompting governments in Nigeria, the United Kingdom,
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