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• @mayazi Maya Zehavi on x

  The government's efforts to centralize an identity honey pot in the hands of a private comp that disadvantages the weakest in society tells u exactly who won't be able to access CBDC & how bad the customer service will be when you're locked out of the IRS https://www.bloomberg.co…

• @ositanwanevu @ositanwanevu on x

  “She found herself staring into her phone watching an animated crimson waterfall run down its screen every time she tried to take the selfie https://id.me/ asked for. Every three failed attempts, the software would lock her out for 72 hours.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... https:/…

• @emptywheel @emptywheel on x

  These IRS regulations might be usefully reported by comparing the efficacy of them to what (for example) online notaries have adopted during COVID and/or what the EU requires for KYC. ONE reason they seem weird in US is bc US doesn't police money-laundering. https://twitter.com/.…

• @kurtopsahl Kurt Opsahl on x

  id. me is in the news because the IRS will require you to submit your face to them. So I went to look at their privacy policies. It's a mess: a 🧵 https://gizmodo.com/...

• @dinabass Dina Bass on x

  In most US states, pandemic applicants for unemployment had to verify thru https://id.me/ — some of the most vulnerable faced delays, errors. As https://id.me/ expands to IRS & other federal programs, @sdonnan and I took a look for @BW : https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @bw @bw on x

  [THREAD] https://id.me/ has grown from a tech company you've never heard of into a digital gatekeeper for the U.S. government—and now the IRS. Its unproven estimate of $400 billion in pandemic unemployment fraud has also been good for its business https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @hackingbutlegal Jackie on x

  We are an ethical steward of your personal information and are committed to supporting your rights: You may destroy your https://id.me/ credential and associated data at any time.* *Asterisk means just kidding lmao https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @hypervisible @hypervisible on x

  “Just as we probably don't want Amazon or Facebook controlling access to our tax records or a government lifeline when things go wrong, it isn't clear we should want ID. me to be everywhere we want to be.” (FWIW, it's super clear many don't want that) https://www.bloomberg.com/..…

• @sdonnan Shawn Donnan on x

  We took a deep dive into the world of https://id.me/ for this @BW feature out today: https://www.bloomberg.com/... But this thread from @briankrebs is very good at getting into why https://id.me/ is becoming part of many taxpayers' digital lives. https://twitter.com/...

• @ozzthegr8 @ozzthegr8 on x

  US: charges me tax even though I don't live there anymore and am paying tax to the country in which I am living Also US: wants to make it impossible for me to actually pay the damn thing https://twitter.com/...

• @meanhash @meanhash on x

  This is not a joke. The IRS requires you to full dox now to access your own records or to make any changes to tax payments. Full video recording, pictures, IDs, the works. Going to be the most comprehensive government facial recognition database ever. https://gizmodo.com/...

• @dogsrul94605547 @dogsrul94605547 on x

  Submit a selfie & all personal docs to a 3rd party. What could go wrong? “IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes”. https://gizmodo.com/...

• @adamrg Adam Gessaman on x

  So, I'd like to propose that we all file our taxes (handwritten) on paper and absolutely swamp the IRS' systems. Fuck this dystopia. https://gizmodo.com/...