IRS plan to scan your face prompts anger in Congress, confusion among taxpayers

If the IRS staff had to be photographed, home address, personal email and cell phone stored in the same mechanism for five years prior to the general public having to endure the same fate unless the database was compromised, I would support this.

Edit: As a bughunt incentive, if you confirm the hack, you would not be jailed, and you would never have to pay taxes again.

Pretty much all drivers licenses, ID cards and passports have a picture on them, so it's not like we don't use pictures for identifying people. The only problem I have with the proposal is letting a private company collect the pictures.

US Treasury contract details with ID.me for IRS identity services: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_2032H521F00420_20... ($86 million)

Sidenote: check out executive compensation.

Discussion of a similar article a couple of days ago:

> Treasury reconsiders IRS’s use of ID.me face recognition for web (201 points | 103 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30126118