Worldcoin released the results of a report on Thursday, which argues that the project preserves people's privacy. The audit comes as a Spanish court upheld a temporary ban prohibiting Worldcoin from operating in the European country earlier this week.

The project's main contributor Tools for Humanity, co-created by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, "engaged" the security firm Trail of Bits to audit Worldcoin's procedures. Worldcoin uses an iris-scanning Orb to prove people are human. 

Trail of Bits's report found, among other things, that Worldcoin's Orbs do not store people's personal information, and that all that is uploaded from the device is a user's "iris code." People who have their irises scanned by the Orb receive Worldcoin's native WLD token. The project has more than 4.2 …