""We cannot accept a world where every adult is expected to hand over ID as the price of going online.""
""With age verification, we're on the cusp of, once and for all, requiring ID for every single person going online, for any reason, legal or not, adult or not.""
""The more sensitive data you stockpile in privately held databases, the bigger a target it becomes for criminals.""
""Age verification as is currently being proposed in country after country is a significant threat to basic access to the internet.""
Proton's CEO, Andy Yen, warns that age verification measures threaten to undermine online anonymity by requiring identification for all users. He argues that identifying minors necessitates identifying adults, leading to a system where everyone must provide ID to access the internet. This shift is already occurring with companies like Anthropic and Microsoft implementing age checks. Yen emphasizes the risks of sensitive data collection, which can attract criminal activity and lead to data leaks, ultimately affecting basic access to online services.
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