The Orb is used to verify a person’s humanness and uniqueness as part of the World ID protocol. It does this by first ensuring the person standing in front of it is a human. Then an image of the eye is converted into an iris fragment, which is a digital representation of the most important features of the texture of the iris. Subsequently, all images and image derivatives are packaged, encrypted and “signed” by the Orb to ensure authenticity and security, then sent to the user’s phone through the Orb backend server (importantly the backend cannot decrypt the data). All images are then deleted from the Orb. To prioritize privacy, all of the humanness verification occurs on the Orb itself without sending data to the Orb backend.
Anyone can verify their humanness at an Orb without providing information such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, social profiles, etc.
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