In response to mounting criticism of its data collection practices, Worldcoin, the Proof of Humanity protocol released its audit reports in July 28th. Consultancy firms Nethermind and Least Authority were hired to prform the security checks. Their report unveiled 24 fixes, one mitigation and another one acknowledged, by Nethermind , and 3 issues coupled with 6 sugestions successfully promulgated by Least Authority. During the peiod of development and beta-testing prior to its launch in 2021 Worldcoin presented an ambitious project : to issue free tokens to every user that ‘proved’ their humannes through an ‘Orb’, an innovative iris-scan devide that could collect hashes but no information. Leaders at OpenAI – former Sam Altman had lead te arguemnts defending that safeguarding and guarantee respect to users privacy was is a fundamental acritical in face of artificial intelligence dilemas.
The reports entails the protective and secessionist modus operandi oops rules in terms of DDos atacks contestation, improper storage of keys, leakage and interference prevention , in addtion to dependencies with third parties like Semaphore et Ethereum as most portrayed caes.>>The sole unresponed risk reported by audit report was given an inscribed severity rate of “undetermined”and , rather, remains an acknowledged vulnerability from what results impliies.
Drawing stark contyrst and leviaging activism from the outset of its official launch inviting polarized impules among the crypto comunity, staying submitted to an enquiry imbracing comission by UK Inforamtion Redaption Office (ICO) and the France’s Data Protection Authority (CNIL ). Intervention seems destined to permeate World coin services ussing all necessary protocol from what both scrutized parties indicates until showed wisefully.
