Spain Orders Sam Altman’s Worldcoin to Stop Collecting Data

March 6, 2024, 5:09 PM UTC

Spain’s data protection agency AEPD has ordered Sam Altman’s Worldcoin to stop collecting personal data in the country.

  • AEPD comments in emailed statement
  • AEPD also ordered Tools for Humanity Cooperation-owned Worldcoin to block data that it has already collected
  • AEPD says it has received several complaints against the company alleging insufficient disclosures and collection of data from underage people
  • News was first reported by FT
  • NOTE: A Free-Crypto Project Scanned Eyeballs of 130,000 People (1)

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Rodrigo Orihuela in Madrid at rorihuela@bloomberg.net

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