Sao Paulo Sues World and Amazon AWS For $47 Million

The Consumer Prosecutor Office in Sao Paulo has filed a lawsuit against World and Amazon AWS, seeking roughly $47 million in damages. Officials state that the project targeted vulnerable people by offering crypto rewards in exchange for their biometric scans. This practice reportedly continued even after national regulators ordered a suspension of the rewards program.

The legal action highlights growing privacy concerns surrounding digital identity projects that use eye scanning or other biometric methods to distribute tokens. Regulators around the globe are taking a closer look at how user data is gathered, stored, and used by tech companies in the crypto space.

Traders and privacy advocates should watch how this case develops in Brazil, as it could set a major legal precedent for other biometric token projects operating internationally. Amazon AWS is also named in the suit due to its cloud infrastructure support for the data collection operations.