Data Commissioner issues an advisory against Worldcoin

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Data Protection Commissioner Immaculate Kassait at a past event on March 29, 2023. PHOTO | WACHIRA MWANGI | NMG

The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has called for heightened vigilance from members of the public as they continue to engage with digital identification platform Worldcoin, an entity engaged in processing activities of iris data via an orb scanner.

Users are being issued with one of the company’s tokens for free once they prove that they are not robots. The value of the tokens is currently not clear.

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