Posted on 01/30/2022 6:45:00 AM PST by Enlightened1
WASHINGTON _ Millions of Americans will soon have to scan their faces to access their Internal Revenue Service tax accounts, one of the government's biggest expansions yet of facial recognition software into people's everyday lives.
Taxpayers will still be able to file their returns the old-fashioned way. But by this summer, anyone wanting to access their records - including details about child tax credits, payment plans or tax transcripts - on the IRS website will be required to record a video of their face with their computer or smartphone and send it to the private contractor ID.me to confirm their identity.
About 70 million Americans who have filed for unemployment insurance, pandemic assistance grants, child tax credit payments or other services have already been scanned by the McLean, Va.-based company, which says its client list includes 540 companies; 30 states, including California, Florida, New York and Texas; and 10 federal agencies, including Social Security, Labor and Veterans Affairs.
But ID.me's $86 million contract with the IRS has alarmed researchers and privacy advocates who say they worry about how Americans' facial images and personal data will be safeguarded in the years to come. There is no federal law regulating how the data can be used or shared.
The system itself also is drawing complaints. Some people have reported frustrating glitches and hours-long delays that have kept them from important benefits, and researchers have argued the company has overstated the abilities of a face-scanning technology that could wrongly flag people as frauds.
Jeramie Scott, senior counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a research group in Washington, said the IRS's outsourcing of identity checks to a private company could weaken the public's ability
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Do they know what I want to do to their face?
The movies and tv have shown us that this technology can clearly be negated.
The finger print scanner on my portable computer, NEVER works.
Easy, just send them a “scan” of some generic face you find on the internet. Make some changes to it with photoshop first. Then reuse that picture as your ID.
OR, send them a picture of your bare ass, with lip prints on one cheek.
Take your pick.
Bastards can get a pictures from the license branches I am quite sure.
Time to stock up on V for Vendetta masks. Rember, remember the 5th of November. (the 6th of January).
The irs can kiss my other end.
Ahhh Woodrow Wilson’s lasting legacy...the IRS.
I guarantee you most people in this country have no clue about its formation and that it’s purely a socialist scheme.
I guess they don’t remember what happened to De blasio’s snitch hotline
Face, NO. Ass, Yes.
I suggest Mickey for the fellas and Minnie for the ladies...
I mean if that is how one identifies, then why not?
Race? N/A
Male/Female/ “Other”
Age? Non-annual circulating
Marital status? Inconclusive
Dog butt!
They can kiss my lily white butt.
“The finger print scanner on my portable computer, NEVER works.”
The fingerprint scanner on my phone always works.
I send my paper forms.
They want mf face they can get it off youtube!
i have no need to find electronic copies. I have my own copies, according to acceptable business practice timelength of retaining records.
Nik Naym wrote: “Easy, just send them a “scan” of some generic face you find on the internet. Make some changes to it with photoshop first. Then reuse that picture as your ID.”
Won’t work. First you scan your driver’s license or other government issued photo ID, then you scan your face.
Since my cat Sandy is one of my dependents, does this mean the IRS is going to need a photo of Sandy for my tax files?
If you think you’re safe by having your taxes done by H&R Block, etc., better check whether or not they have to scan your photo ID, and send that along to the IRS. And it wouldn’t surprise me if, in the near future, doing your taxes at home on paper will require you to send along a photo ID. If I had to file taxes online, I’d send them my picture with a really goofy expression on my face.
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