Judging solely by their FAQ, this is not enough. Iris photos can be fabricated client-side, including by AI, and can be shared.

So it's invasive AND worthless? Why is this getting support?

You need an offline/IRL verification step and measures to prevent sharing/cloning. AND you need to never phone home revealing services you're using.

Total garbage

    Proof of human verification powered by the Orb only involves one type of data: images of your eyes and face. It does not require your name, email, gender or anything else.
    
    The iris images are used to verify unique humanness, while the images of your face are used for Face Auth, a security feature that ensures only the person who verified their World ID at an Orb can use it.

    The Orb takes high-resolution images of your irises and face.
    The Orb uses these images to confirm your humanness and converts the iris image into a unique code which is then split into randomized multi-party compute (MPC) fragments.
    The Orb sends the images and MPC fragments to your device (your personal custody package), before permanently deleting them.

Calling it The Orb does not help anything but adding to the creepy factor. Also, Alex Patterson is not involved with this, and I refuse to accept it being called The Orb.

>You need an offline/IRL verification step

That's what the orb thing is about. You go visit, meet humans, have a photo of your eyes. You can't just hold up an AI photo or scan your dog or whatever.

Let the bot mess get bad enough, then charge users to prove they're human. That's the business model.