The IRS wants your selfie

January 24, 2022, 03:21 PM

Skins2881

Just to be clear the IRS can require someone to have a smartphone with data plan or a home computer with camera and internet access, but having a drivers license or providing your SSN to vote is racist...

Got it.

January 24, 2022, 04:15 PM

RichardC

quote:
Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Invariably, its to tell me a sex offender has moved into my neighborhood.
So I got that going for me!

Neighbors sending scrotal imagery with their returns? ?

January 24, 2022, 04:19 PM

SIGnified

quote:
Originally posted by Sig2340:
quote:
Originally posted by Anush:

The Internal Revenue Service has implemented a new verification process for taxpayers who want to access their online tax accounts and self-help tools that includes taking a selfie and submitting a photo of their driver’s license or passport to a third-party service, ID.me.

The Office of Personnel Management lost all of my clearance applications, including digital fingerprints and digital pictures of me to PRC hackers.

The IRS and ID.me can both go fuck each other.

Indeed; to make me “whole”, they gave me three years of credit “protection“. Horseshit response.

Yeah that’s fair after you fucking let the PRC have everything about me and my family and friends.

"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein

January 24, 2022, 08:09 PM

architect

quote:
Originally posted by Tn226:
Will ID.me be used for voter identification?

More likely for vote casting.

January 24, 2022, 08:14 PM

ensigmatic

quote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
Won't work for me--my computer does not have a camera or microphone. And I don't plan to install any.

Do you have a phone with a camera? As I explained, earlier, you can do it that way.

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher

January 25, 2022, 01:44 AM

flashguy

I have a flip phone and it does have a camera. I don't even know how to use it. The phone is only used to make calls.

flashguy

January 25, 2022, 09:35 AM

ensigmatic

quote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
I have a flip phone and it does have a camera. I don't even know how to use it.

Wouldn't matter if you did. The text message they send you sends you to a web page that runs a web app that accesses your camera.

January 25, 2022, 09:44 AM

Flash-LB

There are many reports every year about people getting bad information from the IRS.

Also, the rule is that if you get bad information from the IRS, it's not their problem, it's yours.

All that being said, why in the world would anyone go to the IRS? If you can't figure out how to do your taxes, hire someone who does know or spend some time educating yourself.

The IRS will never know what I look like.

January 25, 2022, 09:59 AM

ensigmatic

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
The IRS will never know what I look like.

You have no driver's license, passport, or concealed weapons/handgun/pistol permit, or any other federal or state i.d. that requires a photo, then?

Btw: Near as I can tell, with the ID.me process, the IRS doesn't get a selfie of you, anyway. It looks like the entire image capturing and comparison process takes place on ID.me's site.

ETA: This is kind of neat, I s'pose: By doing the ID.me live selfie thing for the IRS, I now "automatically" have an on-line SSA account (which incl. MediCare).