Worldcoin (WLD) announced on September 24 that its digital identity protocol, World ID, has reached 200,000 sign-ups in Chile. The country’s population is around 19.5 million, indicating that the project has exceeded 1% of the population.
To support the increased demand, Tools for Humanity has added biometric imaging devices (Orbs) to three different cities in Chile. In addition to the capital Santiago, the iris scanners are now located in Vina del Mar and Concepcion.
Worldcoin’s co-founder, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, maintains that the project is to create a digital ID to prove that humans are behind online activities. However, data regulators and privacy groups in Argentina, France, Kenya, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and Germany have raised concerns about Worldcoin’s data collection.
In August, Kenya suspended Worldcoin’s activities and questioned some of its top executives. Last week, it was reported that the US authorities had intervened and the team was released.
Worldcoin’s website shows that over 2.3 million people have had their eyeballs scanned for the project. In exchange for the biometric data, users are given “free” WLD coins.
