According to BlockBeats news on November 26, DL News reported that Thailand's data regulatory agency has ordered the deletion of over 1.2 million records collected in Thailand by the iris scanning project World, promoted by Sam Altman. Thailand's Minister of Digital Economy and Society, Chaichanok Chidchob, stated that the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) also ordered the company to suspend all its operations in Thailand on Monday. In Thailand, a mandated investigation into whether World violated the country's data protection laws concluded that collecting biometric data in exchange for Crypto Assets is illegal. World has halted its iris scanning operations in Thailand.
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World has been ordered to delete over 1.2 million iris scan data collected in Thailand.
According to BlockBeats news on November 26, DL News reported that Thailand's data regulatory agency has ordered the deletion of over 1.2 million records collected in Thailand by the iris scanning project World, promoted by Sam Altman. Thailand's Minister of Digital Economy and Society, Chaichanok Chidchob, stated that the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) also ordered the company to suspend all its operations in Thailand on Monday. In Thailand, a mandated investigation into whether World violated the country's data protection laws concluded that collecting biometric data in exchange for Crypto Assets is illegal. World has halted its iris scanning operations in Thailand.