Anthropic rolls out passport and selfie verification for Claude, marking first major AI chatbot to require ID amid rising privacy concerns
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Promote with Leviathan NewsMillions migrated to Claude specifically because Anthropic turned down the Pentagon contract OpenAI took — and now they're handing government IDs to Persona, a third-party KYC provider that had 70K documents leaked on Discord last year. Credit card payments already run through bank KYC, so photo ID adds zero marginal security while creating a centralized honeypot of biometric data Anthropic doesn't even control. Worse, this is entirely voluntary — no regulator mandated it — which means Anthropic is pre-building the surveillance infrastructure before governments even ask, handing every future AI regulation a ready-made template for mandatory ID-gated model access.
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