Official: Anthropic to Require Identity Verification for Certain Capabilities on Claude Starting July 8, 2026

jerm 1 Anthropic updated its Privacy Policy this week. Starting July 8, 2026, certain capabilities will require identity verification and it will be handled by Persona.

Persona is a third party identity verification company backed by Peter Thiel. The announcement comes months after Discord dropped Persona as an age verification vendor following significant user backlash and a reported data exposure incident in February 2026.

[Read more](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude)

[Privacy Policy updates](https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10301952-updates-to-our-privacy-policy)