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I think that this kind of framing is borderline irresponsible and borders on encouraging conspiracy thinking. This company has 17 investors, and one is Founders Fund.

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com

In a new privacy policy, Anthropic says Claude will soon require you to upload your driver's license or passport for a variety of reasons. The ID checker is Persona, a firm funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel. As a U.S. company, Persona is also subject to gov't demands for people's verification data. 👀

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damn this is just the exact same thing as the "discord is giving you personal information to peter thiel" thing from a few months ago huh

like "funded by Trump Ally" is probably true under a reasonable definition for like, 10-15% of all series C+ companies and I think people are wrongly reading it to entail actual control