2024-03-22 21:50:31
Worldcoin already has more than 4 million iris registrations in the world.
Spain banned iris scan carried out by the financial company Worldcoin exchange of a cryptocurrency bonus payment.
This is a project promoted, among others, by Sam Altman, director of ChatGPT artificial intelligence system developed by the American company OpenAI.
Company officials explained that The project aims to issue a digital identity document that demonstrates in an infallible manner that the owner is a person and not a chatbot, a computer bot or robot.
Worldcoin was officially launched in the middle of last year and already It has more than 4 million iris records, and the figure continues to grow at rates of 400 thousand per week.
Ban in Spain
The Spanish National Data Protection Court (AEPD) confirmed this week the temporary ban on Worldcoin iris scanning. Starting tomorrow and for the next three months, The project will not be able to continue capturing the attention of Spaniards nor will they be able to register new users.
With this measure, the company will have to block all personal information that you already have in your possession, preventing it from being used.
As indicated by the AEPD, the decision is justified given the possible “irreparable risks” that hides the project and the lack of transparency and care for user rights shown by the company.
In Chile more than 200 thousand people sold their irises
Worldcoin installed dozens of stands during the summer in different points of Santiago, Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Concepción and Curicó.
The result was that more than 200 thousand Chileans ended up having their iris scanned in exchange for an equivalent of $25 thousand in cryptocurrencies.