Worldcoin likely to temper with data from Kenyans; Data protection office
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Data protection office seeks court's intervention saying Worldcoin is likely to temper with data collected from Kenyans
Data protection office seeks court’s intervention saying Worldcoin is likely to temper with data collected from Kenyans.
According to the Office for Data Protection, the Worldcoin project’s handling of personal data does not follow the guidelines for data protection outlined in section 25 of the Act.
In order to prevent the erasure and modification of Kenyans’ personal information collected during the World Coin project, the office has now requested the court to intervene.
Deputy Data Commissioner Oscar Otieno claims in an affidavit that after reviewing the Worldcoin project operations in the nation, he is confident that it is unsafe for Kenyans adding that they are still doing its investigations.
“The Applicant is undertaking investigations in relation to Worldcoin operations in Kenya by the Respondents. The Worldcoin project, a matter of great public interest, is described by the Respondent on its website as a project ‘aimed at establishing universal access to the global economy regardless of country or background. It is designed to become the world’s largest human identity and financial network, giving ownership to everyone,” reads court papers.
Otieno further says that the commission commenced the assessment of Worldcoin in May 2022 and in the course of the assessments, they suspended their operations for 60 days to ascertain the lawful basis of process and safeguards adopted by the respondents.
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“The applicant believes that the respondents is likely to tamper with erase, modify or further process the personal the personal data contrary to the data protection Act 2019 thereby frustrating the investigation currently being conducted by the applicant,” reads the affidavit.
The commission asks the court for preservation orders, claiming that doing so will help with the ongoing investigations and allow them to keep the personal information they have obtained from Kenyans.
The orders, it continues, will help with ongoing investigations that are intended to help them determine whether or not the processing of personal data is in violation of the Act.
In the documents, the commission requests that the court issue injunction prohibiting further data collecting on Kenyans.
“Despite the suspension and directive to cease processing of personal data, the respondents continued to process the said personal data. It took the public directive by the CS Interior to halt their operations on August 2,” says Otieno.
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