Tech Crunch – Kenya closes its probe of Worldcoin, opening the door to a relaunch of its orbs after a year-long suspension

Posted on June 20, 2024

Worldcoin — the crypto “proof of personhood” startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman — has been given the green light to resume iris-scanning and other operations in Kenya after a year-long government probe over privacy concerns was dropped. Kenya was one of Worldcoin’s launch countries for its iris-scanning scheme — which the startup was building […]