“Once somebody has your specific iris picture, you’ll never have the possibility to stay anonymous.” That’s Michael Will, head of Bavaria’s data regulator, speaking to...
Worldcoin, the eyeball-scanning digital identity startup co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has been ordered to cease its operations in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for...
Eyeball scanning digital ID startup Worldcoin is reportedly considering a partnership with tech company OpenAI. This exploration comes after months of privacy-focused scrutiny from regulators around the...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman no longer controls the company’s venture capital fund. The artificial intelligence (AI) company has changed the fund’s governance, removing Altman as its...
Portugal has reportedly put the brakes on Worldcoin’s biometric data collection efforts. As Reuters reported Tuesday (March 26), the country’s data regulator has ordered Worldcoin to halt its...
Spain has ordered Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency project Worldcoin to cease collecting its citizens’ data. The order Wednesday (March 6) from the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) also blocks...
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has reportedly reiterated his support of the cryptocurrency project Worldcoin, saying that in a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence (AI),...
France’s data regulator, the CNIL, this week carried out “checks” at the Paris office of Worldcoin, a digital identity and cryptocurrency platform co-founded by OpenAI...
Kenya’s government is worried about Worldcoin, OpenAI founder Sam Altman’s identity-focused cryptocurrency. The African nation’s Ministry of the Interior suspended Worldcoin’s operations in Kenya Wednesday (Aug. 2), amid a government investigation,...