News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by Volundr on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @04:01PM (#30000053)
A nationally required ID is constitutionally questionable, meaning this would need handled at the State level. It would require involvement from all parties.
Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by post_from_work on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:13PM (#30003497)
The Federal government should set standards for features that need to be present on a State/Territory ID card "in order to facilitate interstate commerce". Then offer to subsidize production/distribution programs run by the States, for any State with a compliant ID program. Even better if we fused all of this with FICAM somehow. (https://www.idmanagement.gov/ )

The DoD has had ID card production figured out for years. All it takes is a work station (for checking your entry in a database and confirming the data that goes onto the card), a specialized printer, and a few other peripherals (camera, fingerprint scanner, keypad). I can walk into a DoD ID card center and walk out with a new card in 15 minutes. You could easily stuff several of these workstations into the back of a van, and then drive around to neighborhoods, bringing ID services to the disadvantaged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card