EU data protection bodies bring the gavel down on biometric privacy violations

Fines and warnings are flying in the EU, as national data privacy watchdogs dole out disciplinary action for violations of European data protection law through their use of biometrics.

Italian privacy authority gives Worldcoin the evil eye over iris biometrics

Italy’s data protection agency, Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, has sent a warning to Worldcoin, saying that the biometric identity firm’s iris scanning operations, in theory, “would in all likelihood violate EU regulation (GDPR), with all the …

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