Pavel Durov has raised concerns about the European Union’s new age-verification app, warning it could evolve into a broader system for tracking online identities. While the European Commission says the tool is designed to be anonymous, critics argue its underlying structure could open the door to wider digital monitoring.

Security researcher Paul Moore claimed the system can be bypassed in minutes, suggesting it may not reliably verify users in practice. Durov argues that flaws like these could eventually be used to justify stricter identity checks, shifting the system from a privacy-focused tool into something closer to mandatory online identification.