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Re:Online Identity by vorpalhex on Monday May 02, 2022 @12:31PM (#31237352)
You mean like the IRS hiring a private shady biometric company to try and match you to a grainy drivers license photo before they canceled the whole thing due to the bureacratic nightmare hellscape it spawned?
Re:Online Identity by pphysch on Monday May 02, 2022 @12:34PM (#31237393)
That sounds awful. No, it would need to be an in-house thing, a proper government agency, complete with their own datacenters and software teams across the US.

Probably impossible with the current "print $$$ and outsource" culture in Washington.

Re:Online Identity by vorpalhex on Monday May 02, 2022 @12:36PM (#31237408)
So like India's system that was immediately filled with corruption, leaks and outages?