ChainCatcher news: According to Cointelegraph, the German data protection agency, the Bavarian State Data Protection Supervisory Authority (BayLDA), has issued corrective measures for the digital identity project World (formerly Worldcoin) in handling biometric data. The regulator announced that it has completed an investigation into World's compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ordered World to implement a GDPR-compliant data deletion procedure within one month of the ruling taking effect.

In response, the World Foundation appealed the decision, asking the regulator to provide judicial clarification on whether the World network's privacy-enhancing technology (PET) meets the EU's legal definition of anonymization.