There is a new #digitalID program available now. And it looks like this is going to be a serious challenger to the #RNSID digital residency program! The Kazakhstan #eResidency costs $500/year but includes an e-Sim and full access to their financial system. eresidency.gov.kz

Law enforcement from 27 countries seized the First VPN Service, also known as 1VPNS, in Operation Saffron. A total of 33 servers associated with the infrastructure were taken down. The service provided various VPN configurations, including single, double, and multi-hop options, and was reportedly used by cybercriminals. The official website now displays a law enforcement takeover banner. A press release detailing the operation is expected soon.

Anthropic now requires new Claude users to verify their identity with a government-issued photo ID and a live selfie No law forcing AI companies like this to do full ID checks. This appears to be Anthropic’s own choice They are also using Persona for the verification

████░░░░░░░░░ 33% GDPR Fine Loading.... Tomorrow (April 17), Microsoft is enabling flex routing by default for business/enterprise Copilot users in the EU. This allows your Copilot data to be processed outside the EU during peak demand, potentially routing to the US, Canada, or Australia. That means potential GDPR compliance risks. To turn it off: Copilot > Settings > Flex routing during load periods > do not allow

‼️🇪🇺 The EU's new Age Verification app was hacked with little to no effort. When you set it up, the app asks you to create a PIN. But that PIN isn't actually tied to the identity data it's supposed to protect. An attacker can delete a couple of entries from a file on the phone, restart the app, pick a new PIN, and the app happily hands over the original user's verified identity credentials as if nothing happened. It gets worse. The app's "too many attempts" lockout is just a counter in a text file. Reset it to 0 and keep guessing. The biometric check (face/fingerprint) is a simple on/off switch in the same file. Flip it to off and the app skips it entirely.

I have posted multiple confessions about World Liberty Financial over the past few days. 4 crypto products. 3 presidential pardons. $1 billion extracted. $3.87 billion in retail losses. 600,000 wallets. 110 footnotes. Every claim sourced. Every link cited. The definitive accounting of the Trump family's crypto operation — from the team page to the pardons to the stablecoin tollbooth to the $18.5 million dinner seat. Every event unrelated. Now on substack 👇

Een Palau ID helpt je NIET om Nederlandse box 3 belasting te ontwijken. Nederland belast je op basis van fiscale woonplaats, niet op basis van welke ID je hebt. Een digitaal inwoner-certificaatje van een eiland in de Stille Oceaan verandert dat niet.

Why is it ok to no longer be able to enjoy living peacefully in a country like Spain?

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed a bill into law prohibiting any government entity from requiring individuals to “obtain, maintain, present, or use digital identification.”

Lip reading, emotion sensing, face biometrics vie for place in smart auto stack #biometrics #patents biometricupdate.com/202604/l…

Former CIA Officer Larry Johnson calls for the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump.

Angela Merkel just ADMITTED on CAMERA she deliberately flooded Germany with third-world migrants to “stop the far right.” She chose to erase her own people rather than lose power. This wasn’t a mistake. It was demographic warfare. This is TREASON.

Beware of the new bait in the multiple citizenship industry. A few slick talking mobility influencers have switched from aggressively shilling CBI to aggressively shilling citizenship by merit/exception. As an information consumer, don't ever forget that the springboard benefits (e.g. 3rd country visa-free access, satellite residency rights, treaty benefits) of your citizenship by merit mean nothing if not recognized by other countries. These are benefits dependent on FOREIGN country recognition of the citizenship and its benefits. The rest of the world can and may do to citizenships by merit/exception exactly what they did and are continuing to do to springboard benefits of citizenships by investment - target them and nibble away at their benefits. "No visa-free access. No residency eligibility. Doesn't qualify under our treaty. We don't recognize your passport, etc." In my opinion, especially if those new citizens have a) little or no residency in the country b) nor ancestral ties to the country granting the citizenship by merit/exception. Two things: 1. This doesn't mean you should completely avoid citizenship by investment nor citizenship by merit. It just means you need to know their weaknesses and looming attack vectors to make an informed decision. 2. You'll never learn those weaknesses from clickbait mobility influencers LARPing as citizenship experts. Doesn't matter how many passports they wave around in a video.

The single benefit of a 2nd citizenship (by investment, descent, merit, based on residency, etc.) that is the very last one that any 3rd country can deny or degrade is immediate highest right of entry and stay in the country. No foreign cooperation required. That's why it's the most robust and important benefit of a 2nd citizenship. The benefit most likely to last your lifetime and the lifetime of your children. Probably the benefit most likely to deliver you from long term crisis in your country of residence. Emergency escape. If you come from a Western country, throw away the ridiculous Henley charts and all their imitators which don't even measure the value visa-free access in any meaningful way. Look at a map of the country you're considering.

Self-employed tax on €50,000/year: 🇪🇸 Spain: ~€22,000 (Autónomo quota IRPF IVA misery) 🇩🇪 Germany: ~€16,000 🇳🇱 Netherlands: ~€14,000 🇵🇹 Portugal (NHR): ~€7,500 🇵🇾 Paraguay: €0 to €5000 You read that right Paraguay's territorial tax system means foreign-sourced income is completely untaxed And the rest is taxed at a maximum of 10% €50,000 earned online from clients outside Paraguay = €0 owed to any government Most Europeans don't know this exists... and most who do think it sounds too good to be true But it's been the law since 1992

Meta sued over AI smart glasses’ privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/me…

🇦🇪 LATEST: Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority issues an alert against KuCoin, ordering the exchange to cease unlicensed activities.

"Whatever the outcome, the 4chan v. Ofcom case has already become a landmark moment in the global debate over who governs the internet and whether borders still mean anything in cyberspace." quickreads.ext.katten.com/po…

BREAKING: Sweden’s central bank says all adults should hold a week’s worth of cash at home so they can buy food, medicine and other essentials in case of a war or other crisis, per Bloomberg.

3D contactless fingerprint biometrics shrink toward smartphone-ready format MetaOptics reports progress on its compact metalens-based module #biometrics #smartphones biometricupdate.com/202603/3…

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support. motorolanews.com/motorola-th…