Kenya forms parliamentary committee to investigate Worldcoin

The Worldcoin cryptocurrency task has tally into different roadblock — this clip successful Kenya, wherever the authorities has formed a 15-member parliamentary committee to analyse the arguable asset.

The Kenyan authorities formed a 15-member committee headed by Narok West Member of Parliament Gabriel Tongoyo to look into the arguable crypto project, reported a section daily. The parliamentary committee has 42 days to analyse the task and taxable its study to the House committee.

Cointelegraph reached retired to the MP to get immoderate insights into his concerns and lawsuit against Worldcoin but didn’t get a effect by publishing time.

The parliamentary probe into the crypto task comes astir 3 weeks aft Kenya suspended Worldcoin’s operations after the task failed to comply with authorities orders to stop scanning users’ iris.

The Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, who has played a cardinal relation successful suspending Worldcoin operations, told the House committee that the authorities is acrophobic by Worldcoin’s activities registering citizens and collecting iris data, each of which helium claims airs superior information risks.

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Apart from the parliamentary committee, the Worldcoin task has faced an all-out rejection from the assorted regulatory bodies successful Kenya. The tribunal besides suspended Worldcoin’s activities aft a lawsuit filed by the bureau of the information commissioner. The tribunal ordered that the information already collected by Worldcoin betwixt April past twelvemonth and August 2023 indispensable beryllium preserved pending completion of the lawsuit.

Worldcoin, a integer ID-focused crypto task that offers its autochthonal cryptocurrency, WLD coin, for scanning the iris of users, launched amid controversies and hype. The task onboarded astir 2 cardinal users during its proceedings phase. However, arsenic the task launched for the nationalist successful much than a twelve countries, assorted reports of the project’s arguable tactics surfaced, prompting governments successful Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Germany and Kenya to analyse the project.

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