The Parliament of Kenya has formed a commission to study the methods of collecting and storing data practiced in the country by the international crypto project WorldCoin. The project distributes free tokens in exchange for a retinal scan.
The commission included representatives of the committees for administration and internal security, communications and innovation, tourism and wildlife. Kenyan National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula said the commission has 42 days to collect data and report to the House of Representatives.
Kenyan police raided the Worldcoin office in Nairobi and seized the company’s documents, sending them to the headquarters of the Kenya Criminal Investigation Authority (DCI) for verification. The country’s government has published a statement suspending any activity of the WorldCoin crypto company and its partners capable of collecting citizens’ data in a similar way.
The Supreme Court of Kenya issued a ruling demanding that the data collected by WorldCoin from April last year to August 2023 be guaranteed safe and unchanged until the end of the lawsuit.
In early August, the Argentine Public Information Agency (AAIP) announced the start of its own investigation into the activities of the Worldcoin global crypto project in the country.
