Official: Anthropic to Require Identity Verification for Certain Capabilities on Claude Starting July 8, 2026 (opens in new tab)

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 Privacy Policy updates