World(coin) must let Europeans comprehensively delete their data, under privacy order

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Sam Altman's company Worldcoin must delete all iris scanning data collected since the start of the project that has sparked privacy concerns in several countries, Spanish data protection watchdog AEPD said on Thursday.

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Dec 19, 2024 - 12:00am

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“All users who have provided ‘Worldcoin’ with their iris data will in future have the unrestricted opportunity to enforce their right to erasure,” said the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision, Michael Will, in a press statement. The biometric venture has been given one month from the Bavarian authority’s decision date to implement a deletion procedure “that complies with the provisions of the GDPR” — so mark your calendars for early 2025. A further component of the Bavarian order requires Worldcoin to obtain explicit consent for what the press statement (vaguely) describes as “certain processing steps in the future.”

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The Bavarian data-protection authority (BayLDA) ordered Worldcoin to delete millions of stored iris hashes for violating the EU’s GDPR, proving that the hashes remain personally identifiable data under European law despite World’s “anonymisation” claims

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