Claude may require identity verification in some cases

#1

Post by zxilly » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 7:05 AM UTC

Claude may require identity verification in some cases
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Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases

#2

Post by benterix » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:43 AM UTC

Identity verification to use an API?? And via Persona? I can't say if it's real. But if they really try to enforce that, I guess goodbye Anthropic forever.

Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases

#3

Post by zoobab » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC

Time to setup my own local LLM.

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#4

Post by nannal » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC

The under-18 detection is also error prone, seems simpler to me to initiate a gdpr data rrequest, archive it and then make a new account.

Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases

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Post by finghin » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:46 AM UTC

benterix wrote: post #2

Identity verification to use an API?? And via Persona? I can't say if it's real. But if they really try to enforce that, I guess goodbye Anthropic forever.

They were all the same from the beginning. Every tech company of a certain size and significance eventually begins collecting data and sharing it with state actors, as far as I can see.

Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases

#6

Post by dinoqqq » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:46 AM UTC

It's worrying that they don't specify in which cases they require identity checks.

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#7

Post by throwatdem12311 » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:49 AM UTC

Why do companies keep working with Persona even though they have proven time and time again to be untrustworthy?

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#8

Post by megous » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:50 AM UTC

No. At least until there are actual KYC laws for LLM access in my country...

Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases

#9

Post by pajamasam » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:51 AM UTC

Anthropic says they may not train their models using your data, but apparently Persona (the service they will use for identity verification) WILL according to https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verificatio...

Persona also might send your data to 17 different subprocessors (16 if you exclude Anthropic itself).

Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases

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Post by FpUser » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:51 AM UTC

In the old USSR one had to register a typewriter. Sweet memories. And at that time western people (deservedly) laughed at it or used facts like this to show how backwards the country was