30-01-2022 23:26 via yro.slashdot.org

Not Just the IRS - 20 US Agencies Are Already Set Up For Selfie IDs

America's Internal Revenue Service created an uproar with early plans to require live-video-feed selfies to verify identities for online tax services (via an outside company called ID.me).
But Wired points out that more than 20 U.S. federal agencies are already using a digital identification system (named Login.gov and built on services from LexisNexis) that "can use selfies for account verification."
It's run by America's General Services Administration, or GSA....
The GSA's director of technol
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