{"id":14896,"date":"2024-07-02T18:12:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/former-executives-from-apple-google-meta-tesla-and-x-join-worldcoin\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:12:23","slug":"former-executives-from-apple-google-meta-tesla-and-x-join-worldcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/former-executives-from-apple-google-meta-tesla-and-x-join-worldcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Executives from Apple, Google, Meta, Tesla, and X Join Worldcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tools for Humanity (TFH), the company behind the Worldcoin project, has appointed four former senior executives from Apple, Google, Meta, Tesla, and X to leadership positions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re reaffirming our commitment to privacy, security and cutting edge technology to help advance the Worldcoin project. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bN1ruqDB2u\">https:\/\/t.co\/bN1ruqDB2u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tools For Humanity (@tfh_technology) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tfh_technology\/status\/1808121152495030434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Damien Kieran has joined the firm as Chief Privacy Officer, having previously held the same position at X.<\/p>\n<p>Former Director of Information Security for Android at Google, Adrian Ludwig, and former Head of Identity for Google Payments, Ajay Patel, have taken on corresponding roles at TFH.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, the biometric identification project has faced increased scrutiny from regulators in several countries concerned about the protection of citizens&#8217; personal data. Authorities in the UK, France, Germany, and Argentina have shown interest in Worldcoin&#8217;s activities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/portuguese-authorities-halt-worldcoins-biometric-data-collection\">Portugal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/spain-temporarily-halts-worldcoin-operations\">Spain<\/a> have ordered a halt to data collection. In December, the company disabled iris-scanning orb verification in India, Brazil, and France.<\/p>\n<p>Rich Heley, who held leadership roles at Apple, Meta, and Tesla, has become Worldcoin&#8217;s Director of Devices. He will oversee the development and enhancement of the orbs.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May, despite the investigation into the project in Argentina, TFH co-founders Sam Altman and Alex Blania <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sam-altman-and-argentinas-president-discuss-worldcoin-investments\">discussed<\/a> potential investments in the country with newly elected President Javier Milei.<\/p>\n<p>In Kenya, the prosecution ordered the closure of the case against Worldcoin without further police action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tools for Humanity (TFH), the company behind the Worldcoin project, has appointed four former senior executives from Apple, Google, Meta, Tesla, and X to leadership positions. We&#8217;re reaffirming our commitment to privacy, security and cutting edge technology to help advance the Worldcoin project. https:\/\/t.co\/bN1ruqDB2u \u2014 Tools For Humanity (@tfh_technology) July 2, 2024 Damien Kieran has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[83,1327],"class_list":["post-14896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-business","tag-worldcoin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}