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PERMANENT OFFICIAL-EVIDENCE DOSSIER

DEGDPRfinal under appeal

Order concerning Worldcoin's erasure procedure

BayLDA concluded its investigation, opened in April 2023, and required a GDPR-compliant erasure procedure. Its activity report records a court action by the company, so the monitor keeps the status as under appeal.

!A published action is evidence of official activity—not automatically a finding of infringement.
Authority
Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision
Subject
Worldcoin Foundation
Technology / system
Worldcoin iris scan
Action type
corrective order
Procedural status
final under appeal
Action date
19 December 2024
Publication date
19 December 2024
Effective date
not published
Officially stated amount
not published
Legal basis
GDPR

Exact technology passage

“iris data collected by Worldcoin”

Location in source: Opening paragraph

Official primary evidence

BayLDA-PM-2024-08BayLDA concludes Worldcoin investigation19 December 2024 · DE · press-releaseOpen official source ↗BayLDA-14-Taetigkeitsbericht14th activity report 202401 January 2025 · DE · activity-reportOpen official source ↗