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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ken Sweet and Evelyne Musambi

Worldcoin scans eyeballs and offers crypto. What to know about the project from OpenAI's CEO

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Weeks after its international launch, Worldcoin is drawing the attention of privacy regulators around the world, with the Kenya's government going so far as to shut down the service indefinitely.

The international ID startup, backed by big names in Silicon Valley, is now having to defend itself in investigations over whether the biometric data that the company is collecting is truly secure.

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