Sam Altman's 注目する，もくろむ-scanning Worldcoin banned in Spain
MADRID, March 6 (Reuters) - Spain has banned Worldcoin for up to three months, 製図／抽選 a sharp rebuke from Sam Altman's company, まっただ中に perceived privacy 危険s from the 投機・賭ける which ざっと目を通すs irises in 交流 for a 数字表示式の ID and 解放する／自由な cryptocurrency.
Spanish data 保護 regulator AEPD said on Wednesday it 需要・要求するd Worldcoin すぐに 中止する the collection of personal （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） and stop using data it has already gathered.
Worldcoin said in 返答 to the 禁止（する） that the AEPD was "回避するing EU 法律" and "spreading 不確かの and 誤って導くing （人命などを）奪う，主張するs about our 科学（工学）技術".
The AEPD said its 活動／戦闘 （機の）カム after several （民事の）告訴s regarding insufficient （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）, the collection of data from minors or not 許すing for the 撤退 of 同意.
More than 4 million people in 120 countries have 調印するd up to have their irises scanned by Worldcoin's "orb" 装置s, によれば its website. But the 事業／計画（する） has drawn 批評 from privacy 選挙運動者s from Argentina to Germany over the collection, 貯蔵 and use of personal data.
Worldcoin's Data 保護 Officer Jannick Preiwisch said in a 声明 that 成果／努力s to engage with AEPD had gone unanswered for months,
"We are 感謝する to now have the 適切な時期 to help them better understand the important facts regarding this 必須の and lawful 科学（工学）技術," Preiwisch said.
The Spanish regulator said the 過程ing of biometric data, which has special 保護 under the European Union's General Data 保護 規則 (GDPR), "entails high 危険s for people's 権利s, taking into account their 極度の慎重さを要する nature".
It said that 緊急の 対策 一時的に 禁じるing Worldcoin's activities were 正当化するd "ーするために 避ける 潜在的に irreparable 損失", 追加するing that not 事実上の／代理 would 奪う people of the 保護 to which they are する権利を与えるd.
Preiwisch said Worldcoin has been in communication for months with the 明言する／公表する data 機関 in Bavaria, where its owner 道具s for Humanity has a German 子会社.
As the lead 当局 in the EU 調査／捜査するing Worldcoin, Bavaria was analysing 文書s and carrying out onsite checks for an 調査 begun in November 2022.
Its 大統領，／社長 Michael Will told Reuters that this "should 許す us to 現在の the 手続き to our European 同僚s very soon with a final evaluation".
Portugal's data 当局 said it was liaising with its 相当するもの in Bavaria while it analysed whether Worldcoin's data 過程ing 従うd with GDPR and said it was speaking with companies 伴う／関わるd in the 事業／計画（する）.
A spokesperson for the UK （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） Commissioner´s Office said organisations must 行為／行う a いわゆる Data 保護 衝撃 査定／評価 (DPIA) before starting to 過程 data.
They "need to have a （疑いを）晴らす lawful basis to 過程 personal data. Where they are relying on 同意, this needs to be 自由に given and 有能な of 存在 孤立した without detriment," the spokesperson said, 追加するing that the ICO's 調査s were 現在進行中の.
Altman says Worldcoin's ID will 許す 使用者s to, の中で other things, 証明する online that they are human, 顕著に in a 未来 world 支配するd by 人工的な 知能.
Worldcoin is 支援するd by some of the most 目だつ 投機・賭ける 資本／首都 指名するs, 含むing a16z crypto and Bain 資本／首都 Crypto. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Jaspreet Singh and Niket Nishant in Bengaluru, David Latona in Madrid, Elizabeth Howcroft in London and Patricia Rua in Lisbon; 令状ing by Charlie Devereux; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar, Sriraj Kalluvila and Alexander Smith)
