Kenya halts Worldcoin data collection over privacy and security concerns

Issues raised include use of eye scans to prove ‘humanness’ and financial inducements to sign upThe Kenyan government has barred the eyeball-scanning Worldcoin cryptocurrency project from recruiting new customers as it investigates data privacy and security concerns.Kenya’s interior ministry said the venture must stop collecting user data after raising a number of issues including: concerns over the secure storage of data that includes scans of a user’s iris; that offerin