Portugal orders Worldcoin to stop collecting data.
Portuguese data watchdog CNPD has asked Worldcoin to suspend activities for 90 days.
WorldCoin recently received a similar order in Spain.
Worldcoin is in the news again, this time due to regulatory orders in Portugal.
On March 26, Reuters reported that Portugal's data regulator, the CNPD, had ordered WorldCoin to stop activities related to biometric data collection in the country.
The AI-related project, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has ordered CNPD to stop collecting any data for the next 90 days.
Worldcoin's data collection poses a risk
According to Reuters, the move against Portugal's WorldCoin was linked to concerns about the high level of data collected from more than 300,000 people across the country.
On the need for data protection, the regulator cited several complaints in February of unauthorized data collection from minors.
There are concerns that the project, which requires people to search for their Iris digital ID and native crypto WLD, does not provide enough information to those joining the project. Also, people can't revoke a license, the regulator said.
Portugal's move comes weeks after Spain also suspended Worldcoin operations for three months. The project has faced setbacks in the UK, France and Kenya, which suspended all Worldcoin operations last August.
The price of WLD
Despite today's news, the price of WLD has risen. As Bitcoin rose above $71k, the token's price reached $9.43. At the time of writing, WLD was trading at around $8.83, up more than 12% over the past week.
