Data privacy fears forces Kenya government to suspend World Coin
A youth is helped to scan his iris to create personal, secure identification codes as part of requirement while registering as a member of the new Worldcoin cryptocurrency at KICC in Nairobi, Kenya on August 1, 2023. PHOTO | WILFRED NYANGARESI | NMG
Business and Technology Reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
Nation Media Group
Just how safe is data collected by Wordcoin from the thronging curious public?
Kenya’s Interior Ministry on Wednesday intervened to suspend the crazy of thousands of young people in Nairobi who had in the last two weeks been lining up at various retail stores to have their eyes scanned to ‘verify’ their humanity. The prize is free tokens of Worldcoin, a new cryptocurrency that’s awarding people “simply for being human.”
