{"slug": "tell-hn-you-now-need-a-government-id-in-order-to-create-an-anthropic-account", "title": "Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account", "summary": "A Hacker News user posting as I_am_tiberius reported that creating an Anthropic account now requires a government ID, with the signup flow redirecting to identity-verification site withpersona.com to submit a selfie with a passport. The poster said Anthropic had requested a phone number two years earlier, which the poster already considered excessive. The post, submitted 11 minutes before capture, had 4 points on Hacker News.", "body_md": "| [Guidelines](newsguidelines.html) \\|[FAQ](newsfaq.html) \\|[Lists](lists) \\|[API](https://github.com/HackerNews/API) \\|[Security](security.html) \\|[Legal](https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/) \\|[Apply to YC](https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/) \\|[Contact](mailto:hn@ycombinator.com) | \n\n|  | **[Hacker News](news)**[new](newest) \\|[past](front) \\|[comments](newcomments) \\|[ask](ask) \\|[show](show) \\|[jobs](jobs) \\|[submit](submit) | [login](login?goto=item%3Fid%3D50356209) | \n\n|  |  | [Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account](item?id=50356209) | \n|  |  | 4 points by [I_am_tiberius](user?id=I_am_tiberius)[11 minutes ago](item?id=50356209) \\|[hide](hide?id=50356209&goto=item%3Fid%3D50356209) \\|[past](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Tell%20HN%3A%20You%20now%20need%20a%20government%20id%20in%20order%20to%20create%20an%20Anthropic%20account&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0) \\|[favorite](fave?id=50356209) \\|[discuss](item?id=50356209) | \n|  |  | I don't know if this is totally new, but I just can't believe it. I remember that they requested a telephone number 2 years ago, which was already way too much. But now they forward you to a scetchy website called withpersona.com and want you to make a selife with your passport. |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-you-now-need-a-government-id-in-order-to-create-an-anthropic-account", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50356209", "published_at": "2026-11-03 18:39:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-03 18:51:34.337274+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "withpersona.com", "Hacker News", "I_am_tiberius"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-you-now-need-a-government-id-in-order-to-create-an-anthropic-account", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-you-now-need-a-government-id-in-order-to-create-an-anthropic-account.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-you-now-need-a-government-id-in-order-to-create-an-anthropic-account.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-you-now-need-a-government-id-in-order-to-create-an-anthropic-account.jsonld"}}