According to a new report, the IRS has now partnered with a Virginia firm in order to create software which would require taxpayers to undergo facial recognition scans in order to view their tax returns online.
As Zero Hedge reports:
According to KrebsonSecurity, the IRS announced that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log into irs.gov will be through ID.me. Founded by former Army Rangers in 2010, the McLean-based company has evolved to providing online ID verification services which several states are using to help reduce unemployment and pandemic-assistance fraud. The company claims to have 64 million users.
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As far as security goes, CEO Blake Hall told Krebs last year that the company is ‘certified against the NIST 800-63-3 digital identity guidelines” and “employs multiple layers of security, and fully segregates static consumer data tied to a validated identity from a token used to represent that identity.”
“We take a defense-in-depth approach, with partitioned networks, and use very sophisticated encryption scheme so that when and if there is a breach, this stuff is firewalled,” said Hall. “You’d have to compromise the tokens at scale and not just the database. We encrypt all that stuff down to the file level with keys that rotate and expire every 24 hours. And once we’ve verified you we don’t need that data about you on an ongoing basis.”
Krebs believes that things such as facial recognition for establishing one’s identity is a “Plant Your Flag” moment, because “Love it or hate it, ID.me is likely to become one of those places where Americans need to plant their flag and mark their territory, if for no other reason than it will probably be needed at some point to manage your relationship with the federal government and/or your state.”
Will Americans calmly stand by and submit to the potential new requirements to submit to facial recognition scans? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
It would simplify many areas of our lives but at the same time empower the administration of that site to be able to also use your information against you. As our lives have been changed in so many ways in the past two years, I have become cynical and mistrusting of so many things! Can’t we all just get along? And quit this hate and mistrust? The world as I have known it is beyond belief!
It will never be the same as it used to be again, it will only get worse.The lust for power and control is too great. They don’t want to “get along”, they want total control over us.They forcibly steal our money and redistribute it to those that they deem “needy”. Now they intend to ID us taxpayers when an EBT card ( food stamps) used to spend our money on sodas, candy, chips, most anything, has no name, no picture, no ID required.
You hit the nail on the head. The lust for power and control is too great. For that reason we must fight these unAmerican, unconstitutional onslaughts with every fiber of our being.
Let’s use it for voting….hello….is this mic on? Hello
I was thinking the same thing!
I will no longer trust any government official or agency with anything. If you do it’s on you what happens. They simply have proven to all of us they are NOT trustworthy! In fact, they’ve proven how dangerous and evil they can be!
I have not trusted the government bureaucracy for over forty years. Glad to see you’ve had an epiphany.
Why don’t we all just join hands and sing cum by ya straight down the rabbit hole to what ever our government Dems necessary. This people won’t to do Facial recognition but have problems with showing ID to freaking vote! You people that can’t see are gonna be herded like 🐑!!!
seems to be a disconnect about this identity confirmation requirement and the argument that requiring voter ID is somehow “racist” and a barrier to voting
Great point!!
More hypocrisy! So the government wants to have facial recognition to prevent unemployment and pandemic assistance fraud but they are against voter id. The down side is that every good idea starts out with good intentions until evil intent begins to pollute it. Look at how social security began and where it is now!
So many of you cry things like hypocrisy regarding voter fraud. Democrats have no concerns over hypocrisy. They are trying to institute a voter system that has mechanisms of voter fraud built in to it. If you can’t see that you’re blind.
Have you actually read the bill they tried to pass??? Your blindness is incredible or you are just a Troll spinning truth into lies.
Yes! There in lies the problem *unfortunately high tech with almost instant replay world around is adding many more problems than it is solving. There still seems to be hope in follower ship. Leader ship at all to many levels from top to bottom, continues to fail their responsibilities! I call it to many reaching levels of responsibility, thee levels above their given abilities to function!
Don’t forget the vaccine passport fiasco. So NYC, trying to recover from the years of Mayor DeBlahBlah and Sorosian DAs, has an out of control crime wave, but the NYPD arrests a 9 year old girl because she didn’t have proof of COVID vaccination.
I’ve never needed to look at my returns but I’m sure they’ll come up with something that requires us to view them so they can ensure people have to play their security games. Are we using facial recognition on the Southern border? I didn’t think so. You’ll only need to put up with this BS if you have and R behind your name. FJB LGB
No facial recognition, no ID, no picture required to spend our tax money on sodas, chips, candy, most anything with EBT cards. ( welfare-food stamps) only taxpayers need to show ID.
Nope another over reach by FJB government
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if it is govt i do not trust… look at what the govt is trying to do now
‘Papers, please!’
Hm. My computer has no camera, and my phone is a flip phone…
NOT A F-ING CHANCE OF MYSELF DOING THAT
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facial recognition? , well at least Taxes always happen in winter, so the old white beard will always be there, but now I will have to remember to make my camera pop up from behind the screen, and if they change tax filing season to a warmer month they won’t recognize me and won’t let me look,…. dammmiiiiiiIT,…. Doggone demons always trying to figure out how to steal more money,…. ohhh welllll,…. Agri-Life has Always been Interesting,…. Now the cows have jumped from a round bale a week to a round bale a day,…. and a ton of feed only lasts a day now,…. Steak, roast and burger is gonna cost you More folks,…. Lamb chops, too,….
Here’s a better idea . . . . how about we punish those who commit tax fraud and unemployment/ disability fraud SO SEVERELY that they wouldn’t even think about doing it.
I DO NOT TRUST OUR GOVERNMENT!! And I do NOT TRUST the Chinese, whom our current administration is in bed with!
Why? Nice idea to reduce fraud alone
Hell no we are not China. Biden and his criminal regime of traitors can go to hell.
Long as they use it for voter ID, also.
How about ID to use EBT cards? ( forced taxpayer funded welfare-food stamps used to buy most anything-chips, sodas, candy, lobster, steaks, etc.)
VOTER ID?
There is no way I will submit to this. I lived in Russia for 5 years and know where this will lead . It will lead to you becoming a servant to the government in every aspect of your life except breathing!!
If I have to use facial recognition to pay taxes, then IDs and maybe facial recognition need to be used to vote.
Nope, how are all those people who can’t get a voted ID, going to be able to get facial recognition scans. I call that a hardship and racist.
As if we don’t have enough intrusion now! This is primarily for those who are questionable in character and integrity. I have not trusted this government, democrat or republican or otherwise in decades and it will only get harder to trust anybody. I am from the government and am here to help you is not a comfort!
Wait a minute, facial recognition needed to view tax returns but no voter ID needed to vote? What’s wrong with this picture?
Here is an idea, only let those who pay taxes vote and you can check them via their facial recognition.
Hell no!
So they want us to mail in votes, but have to provide a photo to pay them?
How ill the illegals log in?
two million new illegals ushered in by the Biden admin …while they continue to harass Americans. Time to get rid of the Nazis in office.
This should absolutely never be allowed to happen!!!!! DO not think for one minute that Amazons Alexa is not listening to what is going in your house.
Shit is starting to get real….
stop this nonsense, this is not china or Russia. Its not the function of government to spy on Americans or act as big brother.
In my opinion, I think it might be time to DEFUND the IRS.
He’ll no.
HELL NO!
Who views their income tax returns online? My accountant gives me a copy of my return when he files it.
It us back to 1984 ( of George Orwell).
What next numbers tattooed on our bodies? Sound familiar, I think not.
I think this should be used in order to vote as well.
I could eliminate dead, duplicate, and illegal voters?
There’s too many of them, and not enough of us. People are ‘just now starting to wake up.’ If they had been awakened when this crap 1st started, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
If the IRS uses facial recognition to pay taxes, then voters should have to as well, if picture ID is “illegal.”
Allow this, and we’d better start learning to speak Chinese…
Can anyone say China?? Nothing good will come if it. More big brother watching your every move. Hard pass for me.
This seems like big brother control again. The federal government can not be trusted with any information on its citizens. Most politicians get rich and only care about re election. They mostly do not give a damn about the citizens.
Yea its called new world order and complete government control just like China. Truth that was already written in the Bible a long time ago.
When hell freezes over.
So this is why china collects facial details on the tic toc app so they can log in your account. Guinness
it’s the beginning of having full control of you as of right now most business and even small businesses require fingerprint when hired as I think that the federal government is building a national fingerprint data on Americans but will both these programs prevent crime and theft on people who do not go through irs or do not get fingerprinted I KNOW THAT LAW BREAKERS MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE BUT WHY ID for games for drivers licence bank accounts charge cards for medical builling but what about the millions here illegally how will they track them but the democrats don’t want it for voting bi just want a free country with the rights of the citixzens not taken from them with different agendas and laws
I don’t ever want government at any level—but especially at the Federal level—to be able to take some grainy or blurry video footage, run it against a database, and even have the possibility that I might be mis-identified as one of the smudges.
Plans such as this are only a few reasons why the income tax should be eliminated and replaced by the Fair Tax. Another is that the Federal government should NOT have access to our financial records, including our income amounts and sources. Our private financial information should be NO business of government.
Yet; no id, or citizenship, to vote? Brilliant
Neither Democrats; nor Republicans, will fix this. This is a job for courageous Americans to do what our forefathers did, according to the Pramble to Our Constitution.
Hell no
Got nothing to hide why not?
Do the scan but make sure you wear the mandated masks.
They can see my face and take a picture of it as it is being placed in the cremation oven after my death and NEVER one instant before then. They looking for another January 6????
HELL NO!!! ABOLISH THE IRS…..FLAT TAX NOW!!!!!