Portugal ordered Worldcoin to set the data acquisition

• The Portuguese data supervisory authority CNPD has asked Worldcoin to set its activities for 90 days.
• also Worldcoin recently received a similar order in Spain.

Worldcoin is again in the news, this time due to official arrangements in Portugal.

On March 26, Reuters reported that the Portuguese data supervisory authority CNPD WorldCoin had to set all activities in connection with the recording of biometric data in the country.

The AI-related project, which was co-founded by Openai CEO Sam Altman, should not collect data in the next 90 days, CNPD ordered, whereby the step is due to data protection concerns that have plagued the operation of Worldcoin in several countries since its introduction in July 2023

The data acquisition of Worldcoin gives occasion for concern

According to Reuters, the procedure against Worldcoin in Portugal is related to the high risk of the collected data that is over 300,000 people nationwide.

In view of the need for data protection, the regulatory authority also referred to several complaints submitted in February in which the unauthorized data acquisition was claimed by minors.

There are also concerns that the project, in which people have to scan their iris for a digital ID and the native crypto WLD, do not offer sufficient information to those who agree with the project. It was also not possible to revoke the consent, the supervisory authority stated.

Portugal's step takes place a few weeks after Spain has also stopped the WorldCoin activities in the country for three months. The project also met in Great Britain, France and Kenya on hurdles that had stopped all Worldcoin activities last August.

WLD price

Despite today's messages, the WLD price was traded higher. The value of the token reached a maximum of $ 9.43 when Bitcoin rose to over $ 71,000. At the time of writing this article, WLD was traded at around $ 8.83, which corresponds to an increase of more than 12 % last week.