{"slug": "official-anthropic-to-require-identity-verification-for-certain-capabilities-on", "title": "Official: Anthropic to Require Identity Verification for Certain Capabilities on Claude Starting July 8, 2026", "summary": "Anthropic will require identity verification for certain capabilities on its Claude AI platform starting July 8, 2026, using third-party vendor Persona. The move follows Persona's recent data exposure incident and Discord dropping the vendor after user backlash.", "body_md": "[jerm](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/u/jerm)\n1\nAnthropic updated its Privacy Policy this week. Starting July 8, 2026, certain capabilities will require identity verification and it will be handled by **Persona.**\n\nPersona 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.\n\n[Read more](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude)\n\n[Privacy Policy updates](https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10301952-updates-to-our-privacy-policy)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/official-anthropic-to-require-identity-verification-for-certain-capabilities-on", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/official-anthropic-to-require-identity-verification-for-certain-capabilities-on-claude-starting-july-8-2026/38659#post_1", "published_at": "2026-06-21 13:29:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-21 14:10:21.658765+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude", "Persona", "Peter Thiel", "Discord"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/official-anthropic-to-require-identity-verification-for-certain-capabilities-on", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/official-anthropic-to-require-identity-verification-for-certain-capabilities-on.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/official-anthropic-to-require-identity-verification-for-certain-capabilities-on.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/official-anthropic-to-require-identity-verification-for-certain-capabilities-on.jsonld"}}