Claude will require identification from users with suspicious accounts or those under 18 years of age

Anthropic has updated its privacy guidelines to state that it may request Claude’s user identity if your account is suspected of violating its Terms of Service. or if you identify that a minor is using it.

According to a new section of the privacy guidelines published earlier this month, and which It will take effect on July 8the AI ​​lab will request the user’s identity or age under certain circumstances.

The technology firm search prevent fraud and ensure platform integrity by applying this measure to a small subset of users whose accounts have been flagged for potentially fraudulent activity or violations of the Usage Policies (suspected bots, mass account creation, and policy abuse).

On the other hand, Use of Claude requires users to be over 18 years oldand, in fact, this same year, age verifications required by certain States and countries were introduced to prevent minors from accessing generative AI tools without supervision.

The technology company, if it suspects that the person behind the screen is a minor, will require a DNI or identification document to unlock access.

Anthropic will request scanning or photography of passportsdriver’s licenses or national identity card, or that the user registers their face live with a system that will process the facial geometry template through a third party.

The third party provider is Personawhich has the service that will be responsible for analyzing the actual physical document (neither a photocopy nor a screenshot will work), and requesting a live ‘selfie’ so that the user places their face in front of the camera and makes some slight movements if the system requests it.

Persona is a technology company, known for providing services to other companies such as OpenAI or LinkedIn, and which is responsible for offering digital identity verification infrastructure.

The AI ​​lab has made it clear in its policies that the identity documents and biometric data collected by Persona They will not be used under any concept or circumstance to train your models of language, and that the third party provider is prohibited from using it commercially.

There is another nuance in the new addition to its privacy guidelines, and that is that this measure will only apply to end user accounts, among which are free, Pro and Max planswhich leaves out Enterprise accounts and developers who use Claude through its API.

This move by Anthropic comes after withdrawing Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from the global market under order of the US Government, just three days after its launch on June 9 as the frontier model that became the most powerful AI launched by the company to date.