News with the tag "AEPD"

Worldcoin, the biometric proof-of-personhood identification protocol, has agreed to temporarily stop its operations in Spain. According to statements from the Spanish privacy watchdog AEPD, the company committed to stop its data collection practices for a year or until Baviera’s privacy regulator fi...

Worldcoin agrees to suspend activities in Spain until the end of the year or until a resolution is reached by the German data authority in ongoing data protection investigations.

The Audiencia Nacional (National Hearing), a Spanish special tribunal, has maintained the measures that the AEPD, the private data watchdog in the country, has taken against Worldcoin. The court determined that the defense of the general interest of protecting the people’s data must prevail over the...

Sam Altman’s privacy-focused crypto project Worldcoin (WLD) is taking legal action against the government of Spain after it was banned in the European nation. Earlier this week, the Spanish Data Collection Agency (AEPD) ordered Worldcoin to stop collecting information after receiving numerous custom...

Worldcoin, the biometric identity project, has been banned from operating in Spain for up to three months, according to a press release from the Spanish data agency, the AEPD. The agency will also require Worldcoin to stop using the already collected data from Spanish citizens, utilizing the EU’s Ge...

The government of Spain is ordering human identity-focused crypto project Worldcoin (WLD) to stop collecting data in the nation after receiving numerous complaints from customers. In a new press release, the Spanish Data Collection Agency (AEPD) is mandating that Worldcoin stop collecting personal d...