The cryptocurrency project Worldcoin by OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman is to take legal action against a ban in Spain. The operating company Tools for Humanity (TFH) from the German city of Erlangen announced on Friday that it had filed a lawsuit against an order from the Spanish data protection authority AEPD. On Tuesday, the Spanish data protection authority asked Worldcoin to immediately stop collecting personal data via the scanning of participants’ irises and to stop using the data already collected. The core idea of the project is to use an iris scan to issue a digital ID card in order to …