Today, two important updates are being introduced to help build trust, increase transparency and offer individuals an increased level of personal control:
The ability to unverify World IDs via permanent iris code deletion to give holders more personal control over their data.
In-person age verification checks to help ensure Worldcoin is available only to humans 18 years and older.
These advancements are based on preliminary assessments by data protection authorities including the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA), which is the #Worldcoin project’s lead supervisory authority in the EU, and they were developed in consultation with third-party privacy and security experts.
Now, World ID holders have even more control with the option to unverify their World ID. This includes the permanent deletion of their iris code, a numeric representation of an individual’s unique iris texture that exists to ensure that individuals can only verify one World ID.
Once deletion is requested, the individual‘s World ID will become invalid and a 6-month “cool off” period will be initiated to help protect against fraud by ensuring individuals cannot immediately re-verify their humanness. At the end of this cool off period, their iris code will be permanently deleted and unrecoverable.
