The National Institute for the Protection of Consumer Rights (Pro Consumer) assured this Thursday that the company worldcoin –closed for capturing the iris of its users in exchange for cryptocurrencies– still does not open operations in the Dominican Republic, after carrying out a operational in the places where they came to offer their services in the country.
Its general director, Eddy Alcantaraconfirmed to Free Diary that in a operational of 30 inspectors of the entity have been visiting the premises that the company had in Saint Dominiclocated in the Central, Acropolis and Los Girasoles plazas, without finding any of these businesses open.
“We are also locating all the places; all the places from here and from Santiago We have been visiting them at the moment, and we have not found them operating yet,” he stated.
- He indicated that the entity has enough personnel and vehicles to find them and that, although the company did not have premises in Santiagothey have moved there since the early hours of the morning to find them.
“If we find them somewhere, you know that the instructions we have are from seize them (the machines) and process it before the Public Ministry and before the authorities, that they are operating,” he said.
Without “intentions“to open
Alcántara assured that the company does not have intentions to open this Thursday, because in its Web page has not yet published the new locations as it had announced.
He emphasized that the taking of biometric data carried out by the company, in addition to being an unconstitutional action, is a clear violation of the data protection law and the law that forms the Central Electoral Boardwhich is the only entity authorized for the taking, collection, storage and treatment of biometric data.
