Claude bids farewell to the era of anonymity: Anthropic will introduce real name face recognition, and data can be shared with the police even without a subpoena BlockBeats News: On June 15th, Anthropic recently sent a privacy policy update notice to users, announcing the implementation of a new version of the terms of service starting from July 8th, 2026. The new policy not only introduces real name and facial identity verification, but also lowers the threshold for disclosing user data to law enforcement agencies, marking the further end of the era of anonymous big model services. According to the new regulations, Anthropic may require Claude, Pro, and Max individual users to complete identity verification for free in specific scenarios such as detecting suspected abuse, violation, or underage use of the account. The verification process is carried out through third-party compliance service provider Persona, and users must upload government issued identification documents and take real-time selfies for comparison. Anthropic emphasizes that biometric and identification data uploaded by users will not be stored on Anthropic's own servers and will not be used for model training or marketing. The more crucial change is the adjustment of data sharing terms. The old policy required disclosure of user data only when it was' legally mandatory '. The new regulation is revised to: As long as Anthropic has a "good faith belief" and believes that disclosure is "reasonable and necessary" to prevent personal injury, fraud, illegal activities, or maintain platform terms, it can actively share users' conversation records and data with law enforcement agencies or government agencies. The adjustment of data sharing terms only applies to personal consumer accounts, and the data of enterprises and API customers is still protected by commercial confidentiality terms. Previously, Anthropic implemented a mandatory 30 day data retention policy for the strongest models such as Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 9th to analyze adversarial attacks and jailbreak patterns. The policy changes have sparked widespread discussions in the privacy community, and some enterprise users have also begun to reassess the privacy boundaries of calling Claude. [Original link]