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Ecuador’s Data Protection Agency Lacks Resources to Assess Worldcoin’s Compliance Status

Ecuador’s Data Protection Agency Lacks Resources to Assess Worldcoin’s Compliance StatusThe Superintendence of Data Protection, Ecuador’s data protection agency, stated that it lacks the resources needed to assess the compliance of Worldcoin, the biometric and universal basic income (UBI) project, with the country’s laws. The head of the institution, Fabrizio Peralta-Diaz, lamented this situation, stressing that it needed access to the necessary tools to examine […]

Court prolongs Tornado Cash developer Pertsev’s pre-trial detention

Buenos Aires Targets Worldcoin With Eye Scanning Biometric Bill

Buenos Aires Targets Worldcoin With Eye Scanning Biometric BillA bill that seeks to regulate the activities of companies that scan the eyes of their users, like Worldcoin, has been recently introduced in Buenos Aires. The law aims to protect the app users’ rights and help them to secure and determine the destination of the biometric data collected by these entities. Eye Scanning Bill […]

Court prolongs Tornado Cash developer Pertsev’s pre-trial detention

TON Society Reveals Biometric Proof-of-Personhood Palm Scanning Program

TON Society Reveals Biometric Proof-of-Personhood Palm Scanning ProgramTON Society announced a proof-of-personhood program targeting Telegram users, who can voluntarily scan their palms in exchange for benefits. The organization allocated 1 million TON for this initiative, distributed among 500 million participants in the next 5 years after completing their palm verification using Humancode’s artificial intelligence (AI) biometric tech. TON Society Announces Digital Identification […]

Court prolongs Tornado Cash developer Pertsev’s pre-trial detention

Worldcoin Launches World ID, an AI Resistant, Iris Dependant ID Protocol

Worldcoin Launches World ID, an AI Resistant, Iris Dependant ID ProtocolWorldcoin, a project co-founded by Sam Altman, who is also a co-founder of artificial intelligence (AI) startup Openai, announced the launch of World ID, a digital proof of personhood ID protocol. The protocol allows for an AI-resistant verification of humanness online, using a device called the orb to scan the iris of each person for […]

Court prolongs Tornado Cash developer Pertsev’s pre-trial detention