Worldcoin Introduces Personal Custody for User Data Control

The Worldcoin project is putting into practice a plan intended to foster extra trust, even though it has always claimed that it is extremely cautious of peoples' biometric data while scanning their eyes to show they are human. Following the introduction of what Worldcoin refers to as "Personal Custody," individuals will no longer have the choice to have their biometric information encrypted and kept when registering for a World ID. The biometric information that was "captured by the orb and used to generate the iris code during World ID verification" will now be stored on individuals' devices, usually smartphones, and they will have the option to decide what to do with it after that, including erasing it if they so want. The personal custody plan for the project was initially hinted at in December when Worldcoin released information about its World ID 2.0, which was branded "a human p...