The Price of Power: Why Claude is Now Asking for Your Government ID

Anthropic describes its identity verification policy for Claude, requiring live capture of government-issued IDs via Persona Identities (no scans or digital reproductions), outlines acceptable and unacceptable ID types, clarifies Anthropic as data controller and Persona as processor, asserts identity data will not be used to train models or for marketing, and notes account suspension and appeal processes.