The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) forced the company World coin to interrupt his as a precaution Activity in Spain and he has forbidden to scan the iris further by thousands of people and Collection of personal data in this way.
This was announced this Wednesday by the AEPD, which has received several complaints against this company denouncing, among other things, “insufficient information, the collection of data from minors or the inadmissibility of withdrawing consent”.
The company started scanning Irises from volunteers in exchange for economic compensation – cryptocurrencies – and has argued that the whole thing The information collected is anonymous and users remain in control of their data at all times.
The AEPD, which confirmed this on February 20th investigated four complaints about this activityhas decided as a precautionary measure to prohibit the company from continuing this practice, reported the organization’s director, Mar España, at a press conference in Madrid this Wednesday.
Tools for Humanity Corporation has its European branch in Germany. This action of the Agency is carried out within the framework of the procedure established by Article 66.1 of the RGPD, which establishes that in exceptional cases an interested control authority – in this case the AEPD – considers it urgent to intervene to protect the rights and freedoms of people, can take interim measures with legal effect in its territory and with a period of validity which It may not last longer than three months.
The Agency considers that the adoption of urgent measures to temporarily prohibit activities “is justified in order to prevent potentially irreparable harm and that failure to take these measures would result in individuals being deprived of the protection to which they are entitled under the GDPR have.”