Kenyan authorities have given conflicting statements regarding the legality of Worldcoin's operations in the country. Worldcoin is a cryptocurrency protocol that uses iris scans for user verification and has its own hardware, the Orb, for this purpose. While the Minister for the Digital Economy stated that Worldcoin is lawful within the country's data-collection rules, the Ministry of the Interior suspended the project's operations citing concerns over financial security and data protection. The Office of Data Protection Commissioner and Communications Authority also raised regulatory concerns around the project, including the aggregation of citizen data in private hands and obtaining consent in exchange for money.