The IRS backed away from a plan to use facial-recognition software to verify users of its website. Privacy and digital rights activists were buzzing about a recent victory. The IRS will keep using facial recognition for the rest of the tax-
Highlights
- The IRS backed away from using facial-recognition software to verify users of its website.
- Privacy and digital rights activists were among those urging the IRS to back away from the plan.
- The IRS will keep using facial recognition software for the rest of the tax-filing season.
- After this tax season, the agency plans to use Login.Gov, which is a single sign-on method used on many federal government websites (it doesn’t currently use facial recognition) The agency says it will use LoginGov.Gov.
- to verify taxpayers’ identities after this year’s tax filing season, but people who want to avoid turning over their biometric data can now speak to a human via video chat instead.