Senators Urge FTC To Probe ID.me Over Selfie Data (krebsonsecurity.com) 11
Some of more tech-savvy Democrats in the U.S. Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate identity-proofing company ID.me for "deceptive statements" the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service, which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me. From a report: In a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan, the Senators charge that ID.me's CEO Blake Hall has offered conflicting statements about how his company uses the facial scan data it collects on behalf of the federal government and many states that use the ID proofing technology to screen applicants for unemployment insurance. The lawmakers say that in public statements and blog posts, ID.me has frequently emphasized the difference between two types of facial recognition: One-to-one, and one-to-many. In the one-to-one approach, a live video selfie is compared to the image on a driver's license, for example. One-to-many facial recognition involves comparing a face against a database of other faces to find any potential matches.
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Your government can barely help you when you get screwed over by a half-century old system of paper cards being issued by Social Security.
The hell makes you think your life won't be completely fucked when your ALMIGHTY TRUE NEVER WRONG Digital Certificate gets hacked or stolen?
What is truly not surprising, is finding the constituency as blind as the leadership.
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Like.. The rest of the world? Where this works fine?
Other countries can make government ID portals without involving all sorts of shady shit. Where I live, your 'digital ID verification' gets done in person by a courier who comes to your house and delivers your one time login, after which you can set it all up.
Passport checks by courier and online before you can add other authentication methods (App, SMS, Passport again, NFC).
No need to have any of your information, including photographs, with anyone that's
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CAC for all?
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key management is about the most difficult problem that exists in information technology.
1/3 of the country thinks even expecting someone to obtain and present an ID card to engage in civic activity like voting is - racist.
In some respect the state and local governments 'own' identity management they are handing out the records of live birth after all but the federal government sorta just does it as well via the SSA, IRS and INS. Which is even the Oracle? If Uncle Sam and Iowa get in a dispute about who I a
In Soviet Amerika (Score:2)
In Soviet Amerika you go from being a trusted government contract given a cart blache to photo id basically everyone in the nation needing to access essential government resource to having political animals in the legislature pressuring a friendly administration to sic various regulator agencies on you.
ID.me never should been given the contract to be an outsource authentication provider. Not because of ID.me - but because the government has no damn business outsourcing identity management for its own servi
The Feds already have my pic (Score:3)
I'm a trusted traveler, I had to go through a background check, fingerprinting and a pose just so I could get through the airport a little quicker. Was it worth it? For the time savings yes, for the hit on civil liberties I don't don't care. I have to get a picture taken for a passport and get fingerprinted too so if you want to travel it's not too onerous. I do however disagree that the IRS is using facial recognition to prevent "fraud," there are other ways of dealing with that from US citizens.
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