CNBC spoke to people on the ground in Uganda and Kenya about their experience with Worldcoin.
But governments have expressed concerns over the biometric enrollment process and possible violations of national data protection laws. Some potential applicants are nervous about the aggressive evangelism associated with the product, as well.It just looked like a cool, fancy ball, which I discovered later took biometric IDs from people," said Namureba Abel, who has worked in the crypto industry for the last decade.
"The trigger for me was just their marketing style and how many users are signing up without any formal education," he said."They were actually paying people for data."When Muvya Muthama went to a mall in Nairobi, Kenya, to get his hair cut at the end of July, a long queue of people caught his eye.
When Mwangi enrolled in May, he said few on the ground knew there was an incentive to sign up and only 10 people were waiting in line with him. By the time the project officially launched in July, there were reports of lines with thousands of Kenyans queueing for a World ID — and the free money that went with it.
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