Sam Adeyemo reports:
A Kenyan high court has ruled that decentralized identity protocol Worldcoin’s collection of biometric data violated the country’s data protection laws.
The court has now ordered the firm to permanently delete all biometric data it has collected within seven days of the ruling.
According to reports in Kenyan media, Worldcoin failed to conduct a mandatory data protection impact assessment as stipulated by the country’s data protection act.
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) had petitioned the court to call Worldcoin to order after the firm had begun collecting biometric data in the country without first registering as a data processor.
Reports say the deputy data commissioner, Oscar Otieno, presented a sworn statement in court to affirm that he had investigated Worldcoin’s operations and found them illegal and unsafe for Kenyans.
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