Since its inception, the project Worldcoin (WLD) and his iris scan of human eye are not viewed favorably by authorities around the world (rightfully so). As recently as last June, all operations were about collection of personal dataand above all data biometricby Worldcoin were suspended in Spain. That’s how it is today Germany that the project is controlled by regulators.
- The Worldcoin project, renamed World (WLD), was investigated by German regulators BayLDA, who came to enforcement action due to serious concerns about the management of collected personal data (especially the iris scan).
- BayLDA found the World Foundation non-compliant with the GDPR, which requires strict compliance and evidence of express consent to the collection of sensitive biometric data.
BayLDA regulators in Germany have just closed their investigation into Worldcoin
Project Worldcoin, recently renamed World (WLD)consists especially in giving every man a unique identifierbased on iris scan his eyes (made by project representatives with a spherical device called ” Orby “).
From this collection of records ultra-sensitive biometric data (especially as a face photo is also carried out), the German Data Protection Authority,Bavarian Office for the Supervision of Personal Data Protection (BayLDAFor Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzausficht) has investigation on this topic.
And this year, December 19, 2024, the official press release of BayLDA announces it coercive measures will be taken against the world, after the conclusions of his investigation and has strong worry who came out regarding management of collected personal data.
World Project’s collection of personal data is not GDPR compliant
According to Bavarian BayLDA investigators, the World Foundation is not is not in line with the general regulation on the protection of personal data, or GDPR. The German authority thus ordered the world teams to perform a data deletion procedure which meets GDPR standards according to a a period of one month as of the date of this press release.
In addition, after the conclusion of this investigation, which was originally launched in April 2023, the world project will be obliged in the future provide evidence of express consent for some steps in the collection of biometric personal data.
“With today’s decision, we apply European standards of fundamental rights in favor of data subjects in a technologically demanding and legally very complex case. All users who have provided “Worldcoin” with biometric data of their irises will be able to exercise their right to erasure (of this data) without limitation in the future. »
Michael Will, President of BayLDA
Added to this are the Germanic difficulties of the world day the whole serieswhich we have seen all over the world since the introduction of WLD and its iris scan. In July 2024, he added to it insider trading fees. This project Sam Altmanlaunched in 2019, it clearly hasn’t finished generating a lot of ink.