{"id":169072,"date":"2023-08-05T06:22:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T11:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/worldcoin-and-kenyan-argue-about-whos-breaking-up-with-whom"},"modified":"2023-08-05T06:22:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T11:22:28","slug":"worldcoin-and-kenyan-argue-about-whos-breaking-up-with-whom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/worldcoin-and-kenyan-argue-about-whos-breaking-up-with-whom","title":{"rendered":"Worldcoin and Kenyan Argue About Who\u2019s Breaking Up With Whom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worldcoin-and-kenyan-argue-about-whos-breaking-up-with-whom2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kenya claims it\u2019s shutting down Sam Altman\u2019s eyeball-scanning Worldcoin cryptocurrency within its borders \u2014 but Worldcoin says it\u2019s suspending its own services in the country, thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CA_Kenya\/status\/1686718736940580864\" class=\"\">joint statement<\/a>, a group of agencies in the East African nation said that Worldcoin \u201cmust cease its data collection activities in Kenya until further notice\u201d as it investigates regulatory concerns about the way the project collects biometric data.<\/p>\n<p>Worldcoin, meanwhile, seems to have a different version of events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya claims it\u2019s shutting down Sam Altman\u2019s eyeball-scanning Worldcoin cryptocurrency within its borders \u2014 but Worldcoin says it\u2019s suspending its own services in the country, thank you very much. In a joint statement, a group of agencies in the East African nation said that Worldcoin \u201cmust cease its data collection activities in Kenya until further [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}