Kenya suspended Worldcoin’s iris scans over security, financial services and data protection concerns.

  • onlinepersona
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    5 months ago

    I just wish Africa as a whole embraced crypto. It could be a game changer for money transfer. This just seems like a ploy to train AI on the iris’ of Kenyans (and anybody who will use it).

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      5 months ago

      Africa has embraced electronic phone payments. They have a venmo like thing that they often use to make payments and can limit how much so if they get robbed they don’t lose their whole bank account.

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        5 months ago

        That may be, but transferring to Africa is expensive af. Banks make a lot of money on remittances. If I didn’t know better, I’d say it’s criminal.

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