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Re:Treasury reconsiders IRS’s use of ID.me face recognition ... by somenewaccount1 on Saturday January 29, 2022 @08:55PM (#30133003)
I would love to see how much this system actually costs taxpayers and how much it saves in fraud. Knowing a bit about both of these, I suspect it's lopsided in a bad way.
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Re:Treasury reconsiders IRS’s use of ID.me face recognition ... by wmf on Sunday January 30, 2022 @12:27PM (#30139061)
You have a point, but there are also second-order effects of letting fraud run wild.
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