Article 6DG5A Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project

Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project

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Emma Roth
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Kenya is pumping the brakes on Worldcoin - the eyeball-scanning crypto project launched by OpenAI founder Sam Altman. The Kenyan government has ordered Worldcoin to stop collecting data in the country while it reviews the project for potential privacy and security risks, as reported earlier by Reuters.

Worldcoin is a project that uses your iris to create a unique digital identity, which you can then link to digital currencies managed through the company's World App. The project launched last week and has had people lining up to get their eyeballs scanned by the shiny, silver orbs Worldcoin has set up in major cities around the globe.

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