Anthropic updated Claude's privacy policy to let it request government ID and a selfie from a small subset of flagged accounts, using vendor Persona.
Anthropic has long required Claude users to be over 18, and earlier this year it added age-verification checks to comply with various state and country rules.
When the check is triggered, the flow is concrete and biometric-heavy.
The biggest open issue is what happens to your documents afterward.
The timing reads as more than housekeeping.
Read the complete breakdown, fixes and what happens next.