the facial recognition technology used by Login.gov will:
Always protect user data by ensuring it will never be used for any purpose unrelated to verifying your identity by Login.gov or any vendors we contract with.
I trust both the US government and every single one of those unnamed third party vendors, and I am sure they will all be held responsible for any data breach
Lmao the fucking Balls to phrase it that way.
“We’ll only sell your data to vendors! It’s ok guys!”
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The US keeps my data and myself secure. That’s why I live in a drone area, so they can look after me. :)
And just waiting for it to misidentify minorities like facial recognition regularly does.
Fuck that, I’ll mail my taxes in if I have to. They tried to bring that shit into the IRS login process a couple of years ago and they wanted a full scan of my driver’s license, front and back, and then a “video selfie” taken with a webcam. When the site tried to turn on my webcam I closed it and ended the entire process. I don’t even remember what I was logging into their site to get, but I said fuck it and didn’t get it and it was fine. I’d rather pay H&R block $75 to file online to avoid a government face-login.
I still mail paper for my taxes - partly because of shit like this and also as a fuck-you for the IRS to change their ways and adopt a better system (eg, the European system where you basically check a box if the amount you owe looks correct - they already know how much you paid so why all the mental gymnastics and instruction reading?).
it’s not the irs’ fault the “system” is as it is. they’re limited to what congressional actions (laws and budget) allow.
i also still file through the mail because with no assets or investments and a low income, they’re simple af to do. it rarely changes year-to-year except the figures from the tables.
Speaking of which, apparently the IRS is testing a free online tax calculator
that does not sound very useful. we already have free fillable forms. It needs to automatically get the information from the forms we just data entry into our taxes.
I still file by mail because if somebody were to do something with my taxes in transit, it’s a federal crime vs e-filing where everybody whose network it passes through gets a copy, legally.
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That’s definitely not how it works in all European countries. We have the same shit system where you have to calculate taxes yourself even if they already know most of the numbers.
And if it’s wrong you need to correct it or get fined.
That sounds like the digital notary process.
Counter point: if you don’t do it, someone else might do it for you, stealing your identity, filing fake returns or unemployment etc.
I’m not worried about that, considering that it’s a small chance vs the large chance that the government will abuse any data they collect.
They already have most of it. You can never protect yourself against the government you reside under in this way.
Regardless of what they already have, I still plan to avoid providing anything further that I can control. More images improve facial recognition accuracy, and they may only have old pictures of me from my driver’s license. Providing a “video selfie” is like the AIDS penis anal rape level of privacy invasion and I won’t do it.
Can device facial recognition be defeated by wearing a paper mask over my face with the device owner’s face, like a TF2 Spy?
If there’s a IR sensor on the phone, the facial recognition system won’t be fooled by a photo. You need to create a near perfect 3D model of that person’s face to have a chance of fooling it.
I’m just waiting until they role out facial recognition in order to catch people who are becoming terrorists though thought crime.
We already have manual facial recognition!
Biometrics are a terrible security feature IMO. MAYBE if used in conjunction with other things like a username and password, but never on its own.
I mean any single factor authentication is terrible. Two factor is always preferred.
Something I know, something I have, something I am.
I think biometrics are being misused, they can be helpful and useful for access control, but not so much for privacy.
A thumb print + badge scan as factors for entering a restricted area, makes sense, but the goal is not privacy there (arguably it’s the opposite)
Lol. Yes of course.
As some sort of authentication? No thanks. I don’t want someone to know my biometrics and link my account to my identity in that platform via a data breach. I’d rather use passkeys.
