According to Foresight News, Sing Tao Daily reported that the Privacy Commissioner's Office of Hong Kong has completed its investigation into the Worldcoin project and announced the results today. After considering the facts of the case and the information obtained from the investigation, Privacy Commissioner Chung Lai-ling ruled that the operation of "Worldcoin" in Hong Kong violated the data protection principles of the "Privacy Ordinance" regarding the collection, retention, transparency, access and correction of personal data, and required the "Worldcoin" project to stop collecting citizens' iris and facial images in Hong Kong with iris scanning devices.
The Privacy Commissioner's Office is concerned that the operation of "WorldCoin" in Hong Kong involves serious personal data privacy risks, so it proactively launched an investigation into the "WorldCoin" project in January 2024.
