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Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me Over Selfie Data

May 18, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, biometrics, blake hall, cyberscoop, Facial Recognition, Federal Trade Commission, ftc chair lina khan, id.me, Internal Revenue Service, sen. alex padilla, sen. cory booker, sen. edward markey, Sen. Ron Wyden, The Coming Storm, tonya riley

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 16:55:40 +0000

Some of more tech-savvy Democrats in the U.S. Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate identity-proofing company ID.me for “deceptive statements” the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service, which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me.

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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

February 2, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, blake hall, Equifax, id.me, tax refund fraud, u.s. internal revenue service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:15:06 +0000

If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me, an online identity verification service that requires applicants to submit copies of bills and identity documents, as well as a live video feed of their faces via a mobile device.