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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.