IRS Abandons Plan to Use Facial Recognition on Taxpayers

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The IRS has decided to abandon its plan of implementing third-party facial recognition service ID.me as part of its login process for taxpayers who want to view and manage their tax records online. Comments from IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig can confirm that the agency was persuaded to kill the idea after it drew massive criticism from not only privacy advocates, but members of Congress. The IRS is working on a complementary authentication process that won’t involve facial recognition.



IRS announces transition away from use of third-party verification involving facial recognition (IRS.gov)



The IRS announced it will transition away from using a third-party service for facial recognition to help authenticate people creating...

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Aww man I was looking forward to watching this train wreck of an idea (with a bucket of popcorn).