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Kenyan Court Slams Sam Altman’s Crypto Project: ’Delete Biometric Data Now’
Kenyan Court Slams Sam Altman’s Crypto Project: ’Delete Biometric Data Now’
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Worldcoin—the controversial crypto project co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman—just got a judicial smackdown in Kenya. The High Court ordered immediate deletion of all illegally collected biometric data, dealing a blow to its global ID ambitions.
Privacy advocates cheer as judges draw a red line: no more eyeball-scanning for crypto handouts. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley’s ’move fast and break things’ ethos hits another regulatory wall—this time in Nairobi.
Bonus jab: At least they didn’t launch a governance token to vote on the verdict. Progress?
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