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Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID
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Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202606/update-on-identity-age-verification-for-claude-prompts-user-pushback

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anthropic-says-claude-may-want-to-see-your-id/

So Anthropic quietly updated their privacy policy. Starting July 8 they can ask you to verify your identity by uploading a government ID, taking a selfie, and doing a facial geometry scan.

They say it only hits flagged accounts and you can appeal, which ok fine. But the thing that bugs me is they're not even doing it themselves, they handed it to a vendor called Persona. Same company Discord tried earlier this year and then backed out of after exposing code/records. And Persona is backed by Peter Thiel's fund, which also happens to be an investor in Anthropic. They also won't say how long your ID actually sits on Persona's servers before it's deleted.

Maybe I'm paranoid but a face scan isn't a password you can reset. Once it's on some third party's server it's not really about whether you trust Anthropic anymore, it's whether you trust whoever can pull that data later

u/privacyovermatter — 10 days ago
▲ 3 r/dataprivacy

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/

WIRED confirmed a leak from Dialog, an invitation-only group cofounded by Peter Thiel in 2006 that has run private, off-the-record retreats for tech, finance, and government figures for two decades. A member directory was left exposed in the source code of dialog.org and surfaced by a security researcher; WIRED independently verified it and obtained the registration list for the 2026 retreat.

What stood out to me: Dialog's chairman, Auren Hoffman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-data firm LiveRamp. The list also includes Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Senator Ted Cruz, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee overseeing the FTC, alongside other officials in positions that touch the data and surveillance industry.

The reporting raises a real question about executives in the data-broker business and the officials who regulate it meeting privately and off the record.

u/privacyovermatter — 12 days ago
▲ 56 r/FAFSA

Have You Heard of the Ghost Students Bill?

Fighting financial aid fraud is a worthy goal. But H.R. 7892, the No Aid for Ghost Students Act of 2026 raises some questions. The bill requires the Department of Education to screen every FAFSA through a federal identity fraud detection system, and mandates that colleges freeze disbursements and verify flagged students using federally defined procedures. On paper, it's hard to argue with. In practice, it hands the feds significant new authority over processes that colleges and states have long managed themselves….with no exceptions and no flexibility. For those of you actively doing this right now, how does that feel to you in practice?

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u/privacyovermatter — 26 days ago
▲ 23 r/dataprivacy+1 crossposts

PSA: the Login.gov "front door" for your federal benefits is sharing your ID data with private firms

Was reading through the March 2026 privacy assessment for Login.gov (the thing millions of us are forced to use for VA, Social Security, student aid, IRS, etc) and some of it genuinely surprised me.

The identity info you hand over doesn't just go to the agency. It gets shared with two commercial data companies, LexisNexis and Socure. And Google is collecting behavioral stuff during sign-in via reCAPTCHA, including keystrokes and mouse movements, literally while you're uploading your ID and typing your SSN.

The LexisNexis part is what got me. They had a breach earlier this year that hit records on federal judges and DOJ staff

https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/Login_PIA_%28March_2026%29.pdf 
https://therecord.media/lexisnexis-says-hackers-accessed-legacy-data 

u/privacyovermatter — 12 days ago
▲ 5 r/foodstamps

Illinois – Anyone else having problems with the new ebtEDGE app?

I’m trying to use the new ebtEDGE app but my login isn’t working. I keep getting “Invalid username or password.” I know my UN and PW, and they’re still working on the old app. Anyone else in Illinois having the same issue?

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u/privacyovermatter — 1 month ago
▲ 1 r/dataprivacy

Guard Financial Data Act + Secure Data Act

Two new data privacy bills are floating around Congress and they could seriously change how your personal and financial data gets handled. The SECURE Data Act would create a single national privacy standard, replacing the current patchwork of state laws. It would give people the right to access, delete, and transfer their data, opt out of targeted ads and data sales, and require companies to get explicit consent before using sensitive information like health or location data. But it also comes with tradeoffs, it would override most state laws, and individuals wouldn’t be able to sue companies directly if their data is misused.

The GUARD Financial Data Act focuses more on financial apps and data aggregators. Right now, when you link your bank account to apps, you’re often entering your actual login credentials, and aggregators can keep pulling your data in the background, sometimes even after you stop using the app. This bill would require companies to be more transparent about what they collect, give users a real opt-out, and allow them to delete their financial data. It could be the first real set of federal rules governing this system.

Both bills seem aimed at reining things in, but in very different ways and with some clear tradeoffs. Do people trust a single federal standard here, or should states keep setting their own rules? And on the financial side, does this actually go far enough?

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u/privacyovermatter — 1 month ago