IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes
Users will have to submit sensitive government documents, their social security number, credit history, and a facial scan to third-party company ID.me.
By News on the Net -- Gizmodo—— Bio and Archives--January 20, 2022
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Online tax filers will soon be required to submit a selfie to a third-party identity verification company using facial recognition tech in order to file their taxes or make IRS payments online.
Starting this summer, users with an IRS.gov account will no longer be able to log in with a simple username and password. Instead, they will need to provide a government identification document, a selfie, and copies of their bills to Virginian-based identity verification firm ID.me to confirm their identity. That change, first noticed by Krebs on Security, marks a major shift for the IRS which previously allowed users to file their taxes without submitting personal biometric data.-- More...
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