>>15428080 (pb-notes)IRS To Require Facial Recognition To View Tax Returns

(repost - too late in pb)

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/irs-require-facial-recognition-view-tax-returns

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has partnered with a Virginia-based private identification firm which requires a facial recognition selfie among other things, in order to create or access online accounts with the agency.

Virginia-based?

Where in Virginia you might ask?

Why it's inMcLean, VAof course!!!

https://craft.co/idme/locations

Why am I not at all surprised?

Anons paying attention yet?

It gets better!

"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.

Some 27 states already use ID.me to screen for identity thieves applying for benefits in someone else’s name, and now the IRS is joining them. The service requires applicants to supply a great deal more information than typically requested for online verification schemes, such as scans of their driver’s license or other government-issued ID, copies of utility or insurance bills, and details about their mobile phone service.

When an applicant doesn’t have one or more of the above — or if something about their application triggers potential fraud flags — ID.me may require a recorded, live video chat with the person applying for benefits. -KrebsonSecurity

Who is KrebsonSecurity, you might ask?

"For the sake of his article, Krebs made himself a guinea pig and signed up with ID.me to describe the lengthy process that "may require a significant investment of time, and quite a bit of patience."

Brian "Krebs"

Supposedly no relation to Chris Krebs, but spoopy to me.

But wait, there's more!

"Brian Krebs worked as a reporter for The Washington Post from 1995 to 2009, authoring more than 1,300 blog posts for the Security Fix blog, as well as hundreds of stories for washingtonpost.com and The Washington Post newspaper, including eight front-page stories in the dead-tree edition and a Post Magazine cover piece on botnet operators. In 2014, he was profiled in The New York Times, Business Week, NPR’s Terry Gross, and by Poynter.org. More recently, he was invited to an “Ask Me Anything” discussion on Reddit about investigative reporting.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/about/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/irs-will-soon-require-selfies-for-online-access/ (pic related)

So, to recap:

In order to use the IRS website, we are supposed to provide a VIDEO IMAGE of ourselves to a guy named Krebs, who works out of McLean, VA & is a former WaPo reporter!

Uh, OK, sure.