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The Internal Revenue Service’s reversal came after an uproar from privacy advocates and members of Congress, Drew Harwell reports. The agency will “transition away” from using contractor ID.me’s face-scanning service in the coming weeks and will develop an additional way for users to authenticate their identities not involving facial recognition, the IRS said.

“The agency originally had said that starting this summer all taxpayers would need to submit a ‘video selfie’ to ID.me to access their tax records and other services on the IRS website,” Drew writes. “But lawmakers and advocates slammed the idea of mandating the technology’s use nationwide, saying it would unfairly burden Americans without smartphones or computer cameras, would make sensitive data vulnerable to hackers and would subject people of color to a system known to work less accurately on darker skin.”

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.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/08/federal-privacy-watchdog-is-poised-come-back-dead/

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