Regulators are ordering the immediate suspension of the organization’s World ID Orb verification activities in the country. Regulators in the Dominican Republic are the latest to issue a red card to the World Foundation, with the National Institute for the Protection of Consumer Rights (Pro Consumidor) ordering the immediate suspension of the organization’s World ID Orb verification activities in the country. A report from RC Noticias says the objection hinges on “abusive clauses” in the contracts the company requires people to sign in order to exchange their iris biometrics for cryptocurrency, as well as the digital identity it rather clunkily calls “proof of human.” Pro Consumidor says the World Foundation’s contracts “do not comply with the legal precepts established in Law 358-05 and Resolutions 01-2009 and 008-2002, which regulate the process of analysis and registration of adhesion contracts in the Dominican Republic. In addition, violations of Law 172-13 on the protection of personal data were identified.”
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