“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.”