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Worldcoin claims "100 percent compliance" with South Korean privacy law amid regulatory scrutiny

By Jenny Lee
  • 05 Sep 2024 04:14
  • 05 Sep 2024 04:14
Worldcoin, the controversial iris-scanning crypto project, has claimed full compliance with South Korea's privacy regulations, amid an ongoing investigation by the country's regulator over its collection of biometric data.
During a recent press event in Seoul, Damien Kieran, chief privacy officer at Tools for Humanity, the developer of Worldcoin, said,

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Jenny Lee

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Jenny joined MLex’s Seoul bureau in 2021 as a correspondent focusing on competition law and data privacy and security. Jenny received a Master’s degree from Northwestern University’s renowned Medill School of Journalism and worked for a number of news organizations in the US, including the Associated Press Television News, McClatchy and Voice of America, where she worked for almost three years in Washington DC. She returned to her native South Korea in 2019 as a reporter for Wired Korea.

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