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

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.

jerm https://discuss.privacyguides.net/u/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