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2022-01-21 -Great Cultural Revolution

US taxpayers will have to submit a video selfie using facial recognition technology from a third-party company to access their IRS accounts

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-21 00:10|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 Absolutely NO.

Posted by newc 2022-01-21 03:49|| 2022-01-21 03:49|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Ditto DAT.

Posted by Dale 2022-01-21 04:00|| 2022-01-21 04:00|| Front Page Top

#3 WTF!! Madness.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-01-21 04:07|| 2022-01-21 04:07|| Front Page Top

#4 But no ID required to vote.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-01-21 07:42|| 2022-01-21 07:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Happening now! Received letter fm IRS explaining (sort of) third payment of covid relief money, to the tune of $1400. Wife did as well. She received in 2021 a $600 debit card and i received 0.
Went to website listed in lettter and the id.me directions there, as well as how to access all other aspects of my ‘account.’
And then letter (must have been written by Sleepy Joe) goes off in some rambling manner about claiming credit at filing time, blah, blah, blah. Haven’t called the 800 number yet but not doing the facial recognition thing.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-01-21 08:11|| 2022-01-21 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 They're saying this is to cut down on all the scams involving prison inmates stealing other people's identities on the IRS site. Which is a big problem. Seems there are other ways they could fix that, but there's no opportunity to add your face to a biometrics database then.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-21 08:16|| 2022-01-21 08:16|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm sure we are already in a biometrics database somewhere.

Posted by Chris 2022-01-21 08:26|| 2022-01-21 08:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Like an updated Driver's License photo

Posted by Frank G 2022-01-21 08:48|| 2022-01-21 08:48|| Front Page Top

#9 In true IRS fashion, they never ran this stupid fuckin' idea by CPA's first.

Posted by Raj 2022-01-21 09:43|| 2022-01-21 09:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Given CGI tech, handing third party contractor picked by this administration my handsome visage is certinan to created a file in Guangzhou for future fraud.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-01-21 12:22|| 2022-01-21 12:22|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ Yes. Once you have a biometric signature, you can use it instead of the real thing. From fooling iPhones with a snapshot of a face to a fingerprint lifted with Scotch tape, it's all been done. Once it's digitized and stored, it's even easier.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-21 12:25|| 2022-01-21 12:25|| Front Page Top

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