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IRS plan to scan your face prompts anger in Congress, confusion among taxpayers
Starting this summer, you’ll need to provide a video of your face to access the agency’s website. It’s a major expansion of the use of facial recognition software by the government.
Millions of Americans could 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.
For now, taxpayers can still file their returns the old-fashioned way; the IRS began accepting returns for 2021 earnings on Monday, encouraging electronic filing.
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 could 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.
The article goes on, but suffice it to say, there are major security concerns, privacy concerns, and the easy potential for the government to create a database to store peoples' faces for criminal apprehension reasons via mass surveillance.
The data is also stored and managed by a private company, so it doesn't have the same legal standards for how this data can be shared or used (or abused).
Is your privacy worth anything anymore?