Data Commissioner Immaculate Kassait has explained why her office revoked the licence issued to Tools for Humanity, the company behind the Worldcoin project.
Kassait said the move was a result of failure of the company to stop data collection in the country despite a cessation order.
She said lack of clarity on where the data mined from Kenyans was being stored was another reason.
"We were also concerned about the intention to move the data collected from Kenyans to Worldcoin Foundation which is not registered in Kenya when started going live," Kassait said.
The action, she said, was informed by a report from a multi-agency committee formed to probe the matter.
Worldcoin has said all the personal and biometric data collected in Kenya is "securely" stored on servers either in the US, Italy, Germany, Poland, or South Africa.
The commissioner was responding to questions from MPs during the ongoing inquiry into the activities of Worldcoin.
The agency cancelled the licence on September 5.
The company's head of legal Thomas Scott confirmed Wednesday when they appeared before the MPs that they received the communication on the cancellation.
"Yes, we can confirm that the licence has been revoked," Scott said.
Kassait also that as an office they did not licence Worldcoin partners in the country which are orb operators.
An orb is a small, spherical device used in the Worldcoin project to scan a person's iris.
