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0 pointsetchalon2d ago0 comments

I should be worried about this, but Anthropic's products are a paid product. You can't use them without providing some identifying information, unless you're going out of your way to provide them inaccurate information.

I generally dislike services which require this level of identity verification but also, so far, those have mostly been freemium services and community tools. And I dislike gating those communities.

I'm sure I should have more of a problem with this.

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D2OQZG8l5BI1S062d ago· 3 in thread

I have no problem paying my groceries with my credit card, but I'd rather not give them a copy of my passport...

Tangurena22d ago

The British company doing age verification for Discord got hacked and the hackers got about 70k user identity documents. Discord claimed that the scanned documents would be deleted after verification. Surprise! They were not deleted at all.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/09/hack-age-verif...

lucasban2d ago

What about a signed attestation of your identity based on your passport? I don’t particularly want a future where we need to present ID for any online service, but for certain high-risk services (e.g. financial services, medical records, government portals) I’d rather a proper identity system than cobbling something like this together.

As an aside, when traveling internationally it’s not uncommon to need to provide your passport information if you want to get a sales tax rebate. I’ve never purchased something expensive enough abroad to bother with it.

etchalonOP2d ago

I'd have a problem with that too. In fact, I'd have a problem not being allowed to use cash.

I am deeply inconsistent on this.

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