Kenyan Commission of Inquiry: Worldcoin's actions "constitute espionage and pose a threat to national status"

金色财经 · 2023-10-02T04:03:01.000Z

According to news on October 2, members of the Kenyan Parliament accused Eliud Owalo, Cabinet Secretary (CS) of the Ministry of Information, Communications and Digital Economy, of misleading the authorities with his report on Worldcoin’s local operations. Kenya’s ad hoc committee investigating the Worldcoin incident said in a report to House of Representatives last Thursday that Worldcoin’s actions “constitute espionage and pose a threat to the status of the nation.” They want the Criminal Investigation Department to investigate two related foreign companies, Tools for Humanity (TFH) Corp and Tools for Humanity GmbH, which are suspected of operating illegally in Kenya. The committee, chaired by Narok West MP Gabriel Tongoyo, also wants Parliament to harmonize laws to regulate the country’s cryptocurrency regime. In its findings, the committee noted that “the above statements are inconsistent with CS’s submission on September 11, 2023. CS stated in its submission that Worldcoin began collecting data in public places on May 31, 2021, and Applying to register as a data controller in Kenya on 22 August 2022, one year after they started their activities in Kenya, is contrary to the Data Protection Act 2019.”

On October 2, members of the Kenyan Parliament accused Eliud Owalo, Cabinet Secretary (CS) of the Ministry of Information, Communications and Digital Economy, of misleading authorities with his report on Worldcoin's local operations. In a report submitted to members of the House of Representatives last Thursday, the ad hoc committee investigating the Worldcoin incident in Kenya stated that Worldcoin's actions "constitute espionage and pose a threat to the country's status." They hope that the Criminal Investigation Bureau will investigate two related foreign companies, Tools for Humanity (TFH) Corp and Tools for Humanity GmbH, suspected of operating illegally in Kenya. The committee, chaired by Narok West MP Gabriel Tongoyo, also hopes that Parliament will coordinate laws to regulate the country's cryptocurrency system. In its findings, the committee pointed out that "the above statement is inconsistent with the documents submitted by CS on September 11, 2023. In the documents submitted, CS stated that Worldcoin began collecting data in public places on May 31, 2021, and applied to register as a data controller in Kenya on August 22, 2022 (one year after they started their activities in Kenya), which is contrary to the Data Protection Act 2019."