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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

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747 points porridgeraisin | 5 comments | 29 Aug 25 11:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Aurornis ◴[29 Aug 25 13:17 UTC] No.45063738[source]▶
Why are we linking to Perplexity.ai AI-generated slop summaries of other news articles instead of the actual announcement? Reading the actual announcement is more clear : https://www.anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-terms Some important points:

An in-app notification pop-up will alert you to the change. You can opt out in the pop up.

I was able to opt out right now by going to the Privacy section of Settings.

It doesn’t take effect until September 28th. The app will apparently prompt people to review the new terms and make a decision before then.

Only applies to new or resumed sessions if you do review the new terms and don’t turn it off. The angry comments about collecting data from customers and then later using it without permission are not correct. You would have to accept the new terms and resume an old session for it to be used.

Does not apply to API use, 3rd party services, or products like Claude Gov or Claude for Education.

Changing the link to the actual source instead of this perplexity.ai link would be far more helpful.

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1. giancarlostoro ◴[29 Aug 25 13:20 UTC] No.45063769[source]▶
As long as you can opt-out it doesn't bother me much. Though it does make me wonder those third party clients that people subscribe to e.g. JetBrains AI, Zed, and others that use Claude and other Anthropic models, do they opt-in for you? Because that would be bad.

I would strongly argue that API clients should NEVER be opted in for these sorts of things, and it should be like this industry wide.

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2. Aurornis ◴[29 Aug 25 13:22 UTC] No.45063786[source]▶
That’s also explained. It’s excluded:

> They do not apply to services under our Commercial Terms, including Claude for Work, Claude Gov, Claude for Education, or API use, including via third parties such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.

I’ll edit my comment above to include this too

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3. giancarlostoro ◴[29 Aug 25 13:25 UTC] No.45063812[source]▶
Perfect! Thank you. This makes sense, anyone who deviates from this should be shunned if they take API clients and use that data, I think that's the bigger deal breaker, I have a feeling the whole industry quietly agrees / adheres to this, but I would not be surprised if there's some that do not.
4. DrBenCarson ◴[29 Aug 25 13:36 UTC] No.45063957[source]▶
You can opt out until September 28th. After that day all Claude usage will be under the new terms and conditions
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5. Aurornis ◴[29 Aug 25 13:41 UTC] No.45064016[source]▶
All new or resumed Claude usage. You’d have to open one of the apps and dismiss the pop-up about it and then start or resume a chat.