Orb - A device that verifies you are a unique human
World describes the Orb as photographing a person's face and eyes, processing those images to verify uniqueness, storing encrypted images on the person's phone by default, and using codes derived from the images to prevent repeat verification.
Source metadata
- Publisher
- World
- Source type
- official record
- Verification
- verified
- Credibility tier
- direct statement
- Published
- Not listed
- Captured / reviewed
- Jul 29, 2026
- Confidence
- medium
- Content status
- verified
- Original host
- world.org
Citation
World. "Orb - A device that verifies you are a unique human." Accessed July 29, 2026. https://world.org/orb.
Notes
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Current official product source. Its architecture and privacy statements are vendor claims and should be paired with legal-policy and regulator records rather than treated as independent validation.
Why this matters
Published claims
Published claim · cited evidence
World and Tools for Humanity currently describe Orb verification as photographing a person's face and eyes, generating an iris code, sending encrypted verification data to the person's phone, deleting that data from the Orb, and distributing anonymized iris-code shares for uniqueness checks.
This is an attributed summary of current vendor product and privacy-policy statements as accessed July 29, 2026. It is not independent validation of the implementation, privacy properties, security, or compliance.
- Source locator
- How it works
- Claim boundary
- Supports the attributed product description of image capture, phone storage, derived codes, and deletion controls.
- Source attribution
- World — Orb - A device that verifies you are a unique human
- Claim confidence
- high
Used in research brief
Archive context
Archive records
- Archive recordStatus: verified
World Orb official product source
World describes the Orb as a device used to verify that someone is a unique human. Because this is an official product source involving biometrics, this archive record keeps the wording attributed and treats privacy or regulator context as a separate counterweight.
Official Orb product source; biometric context should be paired with privacy and regulator counterweights where relevant.
Research leads
- Research lead · Source pendingStatus: placeholder
WLD / World ID research lead
Placeholder research lead with related World ID source records attached for future review. WLD and Worldcoin-specific source and citation work is still required before any technical, adoption, issuer, listing, market, or legal claim is published.
Related Orb source record; privacy and regulator counterweights remain required.
Indexed topics
Identity
World ID / Worldcoin / WLD
Repository-assigned topic
Identity
Digital Identity & Proof of Human
Repository-assigned topic
Indexed entities
World ID
technologyRepository-assigned entity
Proof of human
technologyRepository-assigned entity
Biometrics
technologyRepository-assigned entity