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French privacy watchdog raises alarms over OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s “questionable” Worldcoin venture

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s eye scanning crypto venture Worldcoin is coming under scrutiny in Europe after France’s Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, or CNIL, questioned the legality of its biometric data collection.

Founded in 2020, Worldcoin promises customers free crypto and a unique way to prove their personhood online by scanning irises using a shiny metallic orb. On Friday, the CNIL said the company’s biometric data collecting "seems questionable,” as well as its conditions for storing biometric data, the agency said in a statement to Fortune.

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