Worldcoin, founded by US tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, offers free crypto tokens to people who agree to have their eyeballs scanned. Thousands of Kenyans have been queuing up at registration centres this week to get the currency worth about $49 (£39). Under Kenyan law, individuals have a right to not have any personal information unnecessarily required or unnecessarily revealed. The ministry of the interior has launched an investigation into Worldcoin and called on security services and data protection agencies to establish its authenticity and legality. In one of the pop-up registration centres in the capital, Nairobi, where hundreds had been lining up for the registration, many had been locked out of the process on Wednesday after the large crowd was termed a “security risk”. What is the purpose of collecting the biodata from Kenyans ?
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