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We did not coerce anyone into scanning their eyeballs, Worldcoin CEO says

From left to right: Sam Sadle, Head of Policy, Tools for Humanity Alex Blania, CEO of Tools for Humanity and Thomas Scott, Chief Legal Officer. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency project by US generative Artificial Intelligence company OpenAI, insists that it is not a data collection company as perceived.

Worldcoin Chief Executive Officer Alex Blania and Founder of Truth for Humanity,a Worldcoin subsidiary, told the National Assembly Ad Hoc Committee that his firm is not in any way involved in mining data, or later selling said data, but actively involved in authenticating if one is human and uniquely categorising them.

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