World Faces Opposition From Chilean Authorities Regarding Domiciliary Eye Scanning Activities

World, the eye-scanning-based identification project, is facing backlash from Chilean authorities as the company seeks to expand its user base

Chilean authorities are investigating the company that will provide domiciliary iris scanning services to World, formerly known as Worldcoin. The move comes after the institution asked the courts to suspend the project activities last month.

World is aiming to expand its user base by integrating with a new service modality. Last month, the project unveiled that it will start rolling out domiciliary eye-scanning activities as part of its rebranding from Worldcoin to World. It announced that it will be taking the orb to citizens’ homes in Latam.

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The orbs, as World calls them, are devices that allow users to get verified in the system, and a new design will ease the task of carrying them around for this new pilot program. The new modality for the Latam markets has caught the attention of the consumer protection agency in Chile, known as SERNAC, which has moved to act against World before the courts, seeking to suspend the company’s activities in the country.

In the same vein, SERNAC inquired about the activities that Rappi, the urban transportation company that partnered with World to carry these tasks, will be developing in the country. The delivery platform, which has over 300,000 registered drivers in the region, will be helping World massively expand its reach. Traditionally, users had to move to the points where an orb was available.

However, Rappi clarified that while the company had partnered with World to carry out these registration tasks, this pilot will not be developed in Chile. “Rappi and World have signed a pre-agreement (or Memorandum of Understanding) to develop a pilot test of an on-demand service for proof of humanity, which will be developed in Argentina during the first quarter of next year,” Rappi stated, adding that the development of this service in Chile is not planned.

SERNAC has received several complaints regarding the operation of World in Chile, including the registration of minors into the system, the operator’s failure to disclose the destiny of the data, and the impossibility of eliminating this data from the system.

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