Kenyan authorities continued to scrutinize controversial project Worldcoin by grilling CEO Alex Blania on Wednesday.

At a parliamentary ad hoc meeting, lawmakers voiced privacy concerns surrounding Worldcoin.

One lawmaker said that the project’s arrival to Kenya “looks like a gang of criminals who are coming to harvest data from young people.”

Worldcoin is a cryptocurrency project launched by Silicon Valley bigwig OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. It aims to create a network of users that have verified that they are humans—and not bots or AI algorithms.

To sign up, users get their eyeballs scanned by orbs. But privacy advocates and lawmakers around the world have raised concerns about whether the biometric data that the company is collecting is secure.

Kenya’s interior ministry suspended the project after it came steamrolling into the African country; the government then created a 15-member parliamentary committee to investigate the project.

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