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ID.me backtracks and admits to using “1:many facial recognition” across large databases, which last week it called more “problematic” than “1:1 face matching”

Identity verification company ID.me uses a type of powerful facial recognition that searches …

CyberScoop Tonya Riley

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  • @tonyajoriley Tonya Riley on x
    Update: https://id.me/ confirmed to me that it uses Amazon Rekognition. Adding some of their other answers to the article now. https://twitter.com/...
  • @thevaliumsofa Julie R. on x
    California's Employment Development Dept .@CA_EDD is about to deploy https://id.me/ to combat identity theft of professionals that occurred in the certification of short term disability for Doctors and Psychologists in California. https://twitter.com/...
  • @hannahsassaman @hannahsassaman on x
    .@IDme claims they don't take your photo and compare it to thousands in a database. but they do. this is an ID verification tool used by myriad government agencies daily, including the IRS. ups to @AJLUnited @fightfortheftr @ACLU @TeamUpturn for work here https://www.cyberscoop.c…
  • @evan_greer Evan Greer on x
    would you look at that, the shady facial recognition vendor that the IRS is contracting with blatantly lied about their technology https://www.cyberscoop.com/...
  • @hypervisible @hypervisible on x
    Add to the list of problems w/this tech being used to access an essential government service the fact that the CEO has been publicly misrepresenting the way the company uses facial recognition. ht ⁦@hackylawyER⁩ https://www.cyberscoop.com/...
  • @tonyajoriley Tonya Riley on x
    “But it seems we can't keep doing one thing and saying another as that's bound to land us in hot water,” one engineer warned on the company's Slack Tuesday. https://www.cyberscoop.com/... https://twitter.com/...
  • @kurtopsahl Kurt Opsahl on x
    IDme continues to be a privacy mess, with contradictory disclosures about its practices. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...