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“In principle, Tools for Humanity’s servers can re-bind an existing iris code to a new identity commitment. They can then send that new commitment to the chain using a special call in the smart contract.”

Matthew Greenblog.cryptographyengineering.com ↗

Worldcoin swears your iris code exists only to stop duplicate signups. The company also keeps raw iris scans for users who opt into “data custody,” encrypted under a key it holds. The server can quietly reassign whose eyeball owns which account. A Johns Hopkins cryptographer went in expecting a Bond villain and still puts it at 40% that this is a biometric database for e-commerce in disguise.