Worldcoin files lawsuit to appeal Spain’s ban

Worldcoin developer Tools for Humanity has filed a suit to entreaty Spain’s caller prohibition connected its information postulation and usage wrong the state for 3 months.

Worldcoin said successful a March 6 blog station that Spain’s regulators circumvented the regular process astir EU GDPR rules by issuing their order, leaving it nary prime but to record a lawsuit.

Worldcoin Foundation and Tools for Humanity information extortion serviceman Jannick Preiwisch said the Spanish regulators’ claims are inaccurate and it is afloat compliant with EU’s information extortion laws. He added:

“It is … unfortunate that [Spanish regulators] are spreading inaccurate and misleading claims astir our exertion globally aft our efforts to supply them with an close presumption of Worldcoin and World ID person gone unanswered for months.”

Worldcoin different said that it operates lawfully successful each disposable locations and works nether the adjacent supervision of section authorities.

Specifically, it said that it regularly responded to GDPR requests from the Bavarian Data Protection Authority (BayLDA), which is liable for EU-wide GDPR compliance, implicit the past respective months and continues to prosecute with the regulator.

Spain acrophobic implicit ‘irreparable damage’

Spain’s Data Protection Agency (AEPD) issued a three-month prohibition connected Worldcoin’s activities connected March 6 aft receiving complaints from minors who were acrophobic astir information privateness and the inability to retreat consent.

The complaints besides alleged that Worldcoin had not provided capable accusation to guarantee radical their information would beryllium protected properly. Authorities are acrophobic that the existent practices could pb to “irreparable damage.”

Furthermore, the AEPD said Worldcoin’s handling of delicate biometric information requires peculiar protection. It called the existent enactment a precautionary measurement nether exceptional circumstances.

Spain’s bid specifically targeted Tools for Humanity, which was co-founded by Sam Altman and is the archetypal developer of the open-source Worldcoin project.

Worldcoin’s main leafage identifies the Worldcoin Foundation arsenic its steward but describes Tools for Humanity advisors to and operators of the Worldcoin app. As such, some the suit and the entreaty interest Worldcoin rather directly.

The station Worldcoin files suit to entreaty Spain’s ban appeared archetypal connected CryptoSlate.