'This is a very, very bad idea’: Lawmakers
decry IRS plans to force Americans to
submit to face-scanning technology to
be able to access their own taxes
Posted By: Ribicon, 1/30/2022 6:17:14 PM
The US Treasury said on Friday it is considering alternatives to facial-recognition technology to verify identities for online taxpayer accounts after some lawmakers raised privacy concerns. The $86 million partnership between the Internal Revenue Service and private contractor ID.me, which was announced in November, would be one of the biggest expansions of facial recognition software made by the US government. The measure has been met with criticism from lawmakers, who argue that the software is intrusive and inaccurate. Representative Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, called the move a 'very, very bad idea, ' adding that facial recognition is less accurate with dark skin tones.
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The vendor is located practically within walking distance of their key customers. Guess the Stasi will need to partner with another source to buy video facial scans of ordinary Americans just going about their business. And rest assured that our politicians will have dumped their stock futures in this company nicely in advance of any real announcement. A previous article noted that the vendor was hiring up to 750 new employees to cover the workload in advance of this.