Proton CEO Andy Yen warns that the global push for age verification is the quiet death of online anonymity, because every passport scan, selfie, and biometric uploaded for "verification" inevitably ends up leaked, hacked, or monetized.

He argues Big Tech and governments cannot be trusted to act as gatekeepers, and the only real protection for ID data is to never collect it in the first place.

Source: https://proton.me/blog/keep-age-verification-from-killing-anonymity-online

🚨🇩🇪 Russian intelligence fully compromised the Signal account of Germany's parliament speaker Julia Klöckner by pretending to be Signal support.

She is the second-highest state official and shared a CDU executive Signal group with Chancellor Merz. His phone came back clean, hers did not.

The Signal hack goes way beyond Klöckner. 300+ are confirmed German victims, including a top CDU MP and the ex-deputy chief of German foreign intelligence.

German counterintelligence says parliamentary group chats are likely being read live, right now.

The FBI and CISA peg global victims in the thousands.

Japanese users fear X's auto-translation damages Japan's reputation by amplifying "low-class" ragebait—mockery of tourists, cultural contempt, and complaints—globally. For decades, Japan's polite image relied on language barriers keeping social media's "ugly corners" local. Now, the polished ads and the hostility both go global.

Youtuber Kanon Aoki states X's algorithm pushes the rawest, most hostile Japanese posts to foreign timelines. A minority of "low-class" users now dominate the international narrative because the algorithm prioritizes engagement over the quiet majority. Foreigners' perception of Japan is shifting in real time, and there is no stopping it.