⚡️🚨 NEW - Proton CEO Andy Yen warns that mandatory online age verification could mean the death of anonymity online.

He criticizes systems that force users to upload government IDs, passports, facial scans, or biometrics.

These rules, Yen argues, would turn the internet into an ID checkpoint, they create massive databases vulnerable to breaches and enable government surveillance, censorship, and the erosion of free speech.

Instead, he calls for privacy-first solutions: on-device age checks that verify without storing data, plus stronger parental controls at the device level.