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“Spain Implements Temporary Ban on Worldcoin Due to Privacy Worries”

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Spain’s data protection authority has ordered Worldcoin to temporarily stop collecting and processing personal data from the market. Data protection authorities can also demand unlawful processing to stop, including temporarily if they are concerned people’s rights are at serious risk, as is happening here. An investigation was opened by France’s data protection authority last year. It also said then that it would be seeking to ascertain whether Worldcoin had carried out a data protection impact assessment. In another set-back last year, Kenya’s data protection authority issued a ban on Worldcoin’s local processing.