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Spanish watchdog tells Worldcoin to delete all iris scan data

Published by Global Banking and Finance Review

Posted on December 19, 2024

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MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish data protection watchdog AEPD on Thursday ordered that Sam Altman's company Worldcoin delete all iris scanning data it had collected in the country in the latest blow to a project that has sparked privacy concerns in several countries.

AEPD said its order followed a decision by its Bavarian counterparts BayLDA, with whom the agency has cooperated on the case, that had found the venture in breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.

Spain's High Court in March upheld a temporary ban on the iris-scanning venture, dismissing an appeal by Worldcoin owners.

Co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in 2019, Worldcoin aims to create a global identity system by getting people to have their irises scanned in exchange for free cryptocurrency and a digital ID.

(Reporting by Emma Pinedo, editing by Andrei Khalip)

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