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A lab warns users it may require ID and selfie checks

development2026-06-21

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In apparent response to export controls, Anthropic amended its privacy policy to warn it may ask users to confirm age or identity via an ID-and-selfie check it vows will never train a model.

Reporting date: 2026-06-21 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 21, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to June 21, 2026

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Anthropic

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A lab dispatches senior staff to Washington over its own export ban

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A lab warns users it may require ID and selfie checks
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-06-21
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-21-id-and-selfie-checks-for-model-access
Claim: In apparent response to export controls, Anthropic amended its privacy policy to warn it may ask users to confirm age or identity via an ID-and-selfie check it vows will never train a model.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to June 21, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-21-2026
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