The Supreme Court of Chile has ordered World to erase all records of the biometric data of a 17-year-old teenager. According to the court, several constitutional rights were violated by World’s iris-scanning activities. The data must be deleted within 30 days of this decision.
World Gets Slapped by Adverse Legal Decision in Chile: Teenager Biometric Data Involved
World, the biometric ID and cryptocurrency wallet project, has been slapped with a negative legal decision in Chile. The Supreme Court of Chile has ordered World to delete biometric data allegedly obtained without permission from a 17-year-old teenager.
The legal action was introduced by Rodrigo Lagos, an attorney whose daughter had her iris scanned without his permission, violating her privacy. The minor received cryptocurrency for her participation and access to the World ID app.
Lagos justified its stance on this case, stating that such target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>remarked:
A minor cannot give her consent to have her iris scanned, or anything else, not even a fingerprint could be taken, without her parents knowing. The company was precisely violating international regulations, not even Chilean regulations.
The case was first rejected by a lower court, although it qualified the unauthorized collection of biometric data from minors as illegal and arbitrary. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court accepted this case, asking World to “delete the minor’s World ID, eliminating all records, storage, and processing in the Worldcoin and World App databases.”
This elimination must be done within 30 days of the decision and reported to a lower court.
Chile is one of the countries where World, formerly known as Worldcoin, has been facing increased government opposition to its activities. In November, the consumer protection watchdog SERNAC launched a probe into a possible expansion of World activities including domiciliary scanning operations using Rappi, a delivery platform with over 300,000 registered drivers in Latam.
Read more: Chilean Authorities Probe World’s Domiciliary Eye Scanning Activities Pilot
Nonetheless, citizens seem to have reacted differently, as the project blew up in Chile in 2023, signing up over 1% of its population by that time.
Read more: Worldcoin Blows up in Chile; Sign-Ups Exceed 1% of the Population
