Worldcoin is a company that gives cryptocurrencies to people in exchange for permission to scan the iris of their eyes. The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD), the entity that regulates the privacy of people, ordered him to "immediately cease the collection of personal data in Spanish territory" The regulator also demanded that Worldcoin block all the data it has collected so far in that country.
Worldcoin announced that it is going to initiate legal action against the AEPD order that requires it to immediately cease iris scanning in Spain.