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### Regulatory Bans and Privacy Findings
The project has drawn regulatory action across multiple jurisdictions over its collection of biometric data. Kenya suspended sign-ups in August 2023, and in May 2025 the High Court ordered the company to delete all biometric data collected from Kenyans, a deletion confirmed complete in January 2026. The Bavarian data-protection authority, which oversees Worldcoin's European entity, ruled in December 2024 that its central storage of IrisCodes violated the General Data Protection Regulation and ordered compliant deletion. [[Spain]]'s agency imposed a three-month precautionary ban in March 2024, and Hong Kong's privacy commissioner ordered all operations to cease in May 2024 after finding six data-protection contraventions.[^4][^9]
The project has drawn regulatory action across multiple jurisdictions over its collection of biometric data. Kenya suspended sign-ups in August 2023, and in May 2025 the High Court ordered the company to delete all biometric data collected from Kenyans, a deletion confirmed complete in January 2026. The Bavarian data-protection authority, which oversees Worldcoin's European entity, ruled in December 2024 that its central storage of IrisCodes violated the General Data Protection Regulation and ordered compliant deletion. [[Spain]]'s agency imposed a three-month precautionary ban in March 2024, and [[Hong Kong]]'s privacy commissioner ordered all operations to cease in May 2024 after finding six data-protection contraventions.[^4][^9]
Brazil's data-protection authority banned the company in January 2025 from offering cryptocurrency or cash in exchange for biometric data, with a fine of fifty thousand reais a day for resuming, and Indonesia suspended its registration in May 2025; Colombia ordered an "immediate and definitive closure" in October 2025. Despite the scrutiny, the company launched in the United States in April 2025 across six cities, introduced a Visa-linked World Card, and announced partnerships with [[Tinder]], [[Zoom]], and [[Docusign]] to use World ID for human verification. Edward Snowden had warned of the project in October 2021, writing "Don't catalogue eyeballs" and "The human body is not a ticket-punch."[^1][^10]