Kenya forms parliamentary committee to investigate Worldcoin

The Worldcoin cryptocurrency challenge has run into one other roadblock, this time in Kenya the place the federal government has fashioned a 15-member parliamentary committee to analyze the controversial asset.

The Kenyan authorities fashioned a 15-member parliamentary committee headed by Narok West MP Gabriel Tongoyo to look into the controversial crypto challenge, reported a neighborhood each day. The parliamentary committee has 42 days to analyze the challenge and submit its report back to the Home committee.

Cointelegraph reached out to the MP to get some insights into their considerations and case in opposition to Worldcoin however didn’t get a response by publishing time.

The parliamentary investigation into the crypto challenge comes almost three weeks after Kenya suspended Worldcoin’s operations after the challenge didn’t adjust to authorities orders to stop scanning customers’ iris.

The Inside Cupboard Secretary Kindiki Kithure who has performed a key function in suspending Worldcoin operations instructed the Home committee that the federal government is anxious by Worldcoin’s actions registrating residents and gathering eyeball/iris information, all of which he claims pose critical safety dangers.

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Other than the parliamentary committee, the Worldcoin challenge has confronted an all-out rejection from the assorted regulatory our bodies in Kenya. The court docket additionally suspended Worldcoin’s actions after a case filed by the workplace of the information commissioner. The court docket ordered that the information already collected by Worldcoin between April final yr and August 2023 have to be preserved pending completion of the lawsuit.

Worldcoin, a digital ID-focused crypto challenge that provides its native cryptocurrency WLD coin for scanning the iris of customers, launched amid controversies and hype. The challenge onboarded almost 2 million customers throughout its trial part. Nonetheless, because the challenge launched for the general public in additional than a dozen international locations, varied stories of the challenge’s controversial ways surfaced, prompting governments in Nigeria, the UK, Argentina, Germany and Kenya to analyze the challenge.

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