Seattle Times: Want to access your IRS records? Soon you’ll have to scan your face

January 27, 2022

Jeramie Scott, senior counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a research group in Washington, said the IRS’s outsourcing of identity checks to a private company could weaken the public’s ability to know how information is being used, especially because no federal laws govern how facial recognition should work nationwide.

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