Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access "certain capabilities" (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)

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Anthropic began requiring government-issued photo ID and live selfie verification for Claude users accessing certain capabilities, expanding KYC requirements.

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<a href="https://decrypt.co/364509/claude-anthropic-government-id-kyc-privacy"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260415/i48.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p48#a260415p48" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jose Antonio Lanz / <a href="https://decrypt.co/">Decrypt</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://decrypt.co/364509/claude-anthropic-government-id-kyc-privacy">Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access &ldquo;certain capabilities&rdquo;</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Anthropic quietly published identity verification requirements for Claude this week, asking certain users to hand &hellip; </p>