Why filing taxes might soon require facial recognition
by Dwight A. Weingarten
Apr 15, 2022
2 minutes
The Internal Revenue Service dropped a requirement for taxpayers to use facial recognition identification verification when it met bipartisan opposition in Congress earlier this year. And on April 14, a congressional committee opened an investigation into a facial recognition identity verification company over concerns about privacy, security, and the technology’s potential to discriminate.
Federal agencies have expanded, or have had , use of the technology by 2023.
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