PANews reported on December 19 that according to Cointelegraph, the German data protection agency, the Bavarian State Data Protection Supervisory Authority (BayLDA), issued corrective measures regarding the digital identity project World (formerly Worldcoin)’s processing of biometric data. The regulator announced that it has completed its investigation into World’s compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ordered World to implement a data deletion procedure that complies with GDPR standards within one month after the ruling takes 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.