Worldcoin's Orb Becomes Tinder's Anti-Bot ID Check
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World is a Sam Altman-backed digital identity project.
Key facts
In November 2025, Thai data protection authorities ordered World to delete over 1.2 million iris scan records and suspend all operations in the country
In December 2024, Germany’s data protection agency declared that World had violated data privacy rules and ordered it to delete iris codes it had collected
Authorities in Spain and Portugal suspended the company from operating in those countries in 2024 after receiving complaints that minors were being scanned
And in October 2025, Colombia’s data protection regulator ordered the immediate closure of World’s data processing operations following a seven-month investigation
Summary
Sam Altman’s World project is betting the internet needs a way to prove you’re human. World, the controversial project that scans its users’ eyeballs to create a nontransferrable digital identity, unveiled on Friday what it calls its most significant upgrade yet. World argues that its biometric verification system will become essential as AI-generated bots and deepfakes make it harder to distinguish humans from machines online.