Two questions: 1) id.me seems to have a spotty track record given the $86 million we paid for the two year contract [1]. Setting aside the weirdness of being required to go through a private corporation to see my own government data, I noticed their terms [2] Section 19 lists _mandatory arbitration_. Awful
(Of mild interest, irs.gov doesn't appear to even have a terms page, rather only a Privacy Policy and Accessibility page.)
It's 2023 and the public is online. Why should the public be required to go through a third party to access government services they already paid for?
2) Anyone know what happened to login.gov?
Right now the login page [3] lists only id.me.
Over a year ago it was announced [4] login.gov was supposed to be available [5].
Login.gov appears to be a USDS/18F project [6] and would seem more palatable than id.me. Why did it fail this year?
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/us/politics/irs-facial-re...
[3] https://sa.www4.irs.gov/secureaccess/ui/
[4] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2022/02/irs-...
[5] https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2023/03/irs-cio-mov...
[6] https://www.usds.gov/report-to-congress/2017/07/login-dot-go...