Ecuador’s Data Protection Agency Lacks Resources to Assess Worldcoin’s Compliance Status

The Superintendence of Data Protection, Ecuador’s data protection agency, stated that it lacks the resources needed to assess the compliance of Worldcoin, the biometric and universal basic income (UBI) project, with the country’s laws. The head of the institution, Fabrizio Peralta-Diaz, lamented this situation, stressing that it needed access to the necessary tools to examine the company’s standing in the country, given that it had only been founded three months prior. In an interview with local media last week, Peralta-Diaz stated that one person’s will was not enough to carry out this action and that he needed “infrastructure, employees, and technical reports to serve as a basis for eventually issuing a sanction.”