Critics of the Internal Revenue Service’s new requirement for taxpayers to use facial recognition warn without proper safeguards, information collected by the agency could easily be reused for other purposes, Axios reports. The IRS will now require some taxpayers to provide third-party ID.me with their documents and a video selfie to verify their identity for certain online interactions. ID.me’s terms of service allow the company to share personal data with police, the government and “select partners.” Other concerns are the hardware costs for economically disadvantaged citizens and ID.me having issues with misidentifying people of color and gender-nonconforming individuals, according to Fight for the Future Campaign Director Caitlin Seeley George.
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