Catenaa, Friday, February 14, 2025 – Authorities in Argentina have arrested five individuals accused of scanning people’s irises in exchange for cryptocurrency and cash, Police said recently.  The suspects, four men and a woman from Córdoba province, were detained in a parking lot near the Feria del Litoral shopping center in Santa Fe. Officers confiscated […]

Catenaa, Sunday, February 02, 2025 – Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has ordered the parent company of Worldcoin, Tools for Humanity (TFH), to stop offering cryptocurrency or financial incentives in exchange for biometric data. The directive, effective Jan. 25, follows an investigation into the World ID project, which began operating in Brazil last November.  […]

Catenaa, Thursday, December 26, 2024 – A key German privacy regulator has ordered the controversial World project, backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, to delete biometric data collected from scanning people’s eyeballs. The Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision, tasked with enforcing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), announced the decision Thursday, citing […]

San Francisco, Wednesday, April 24, 2024 – The privacy-preserving human identity and financial network, Worldcoin, will upgrade its protocol, introducing new features to the global community, the company announced on April 9. The removal of verified World IDs through iris code removal and in-person age verification will be added as new features. The World ID, […]