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Anthropic's Claude AI prompts users for government ID age verification

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Users of Anthropic's Claude AI are reporting being prompted for government ID-based age verification. This requirement has led to concerns about data privacy and the suspension of features like memory access for affected users. The verification process is reportedly handled by a third-party service, Yoti, raising further questions about data handling and security. AI

IMPACT Raises privacy concerns for AI users and may impact accessibility of AI tools.

RANK_REASON Users are reporting a new product feature/policy change affecting their access to an existing AI product.

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Anthropic's Claude AI prompts users for government ID age verification

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. r/Anthropic TIER_1 Italiano(IT) · /u/Independent_Blood559 ·

    Age verification

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I am 19M and today my anthropic account was disabled because according to them the user is minor. I don't want my data to be leaked in the next data breach or directly sold to the data brokers. What should I do? </p> <p>Also my face is childish a…

  2. r/Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/TBD_V ·

    Age verification?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Yeah no, I got some important projects saved on Claude, and now they are asking me for an age verification when I am sure I haven't written anything noteworthy of this. </p> <p>Any of you guys familiar with the reputation of yoti or is this a sta…

  3. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/FanaticSlayer1 ·

    goverenment id for age verification

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tydihg/goverenment_id_for_age_verification/"> <img alt="goverenment id for age verification" src="https://preview.redd.it/gwy8xl771n5h1.png?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=cdebf2552e166876f9ad963c9…

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