(CNN) - La prochaine fois que vous essaierez de vous connecter au site Web de l'Internal Revenue Service, vous serez invité à utiliser un logiciel de reconnaissance faciale pour vérifier que vous êtes qui vous dites que vous êtes.
Le processus de vérification comprend la prise d'une photo d'un identifiant photo, commoi un permis de conduire ou un passeport, puis prendre un selfie vidéo avec un smartphone ou un ordinateur afin que le logiciel puisse comparer les deux.Cela fait partie d'un partenariat que l'IRS a avec ID.Moi, une entreprise à croissance rapide qui utilise un logiciel de reconnaissance faciale dans le cadre de son processus de vérification d'identité.
READ MORE: Man Found Dead At El Cerrito LibraryPour l'instant, ce processus est facultatif si vous avez déjà un nom d'utilisateur et un mot de passe IRS.Mais si vous ne le faites pas, et que vous souhaitez utiliser des outils en ligne pour demander une transcription fiscale en ligne ou voir des informations concernant vos paiemoints d'impôt ou vos paiemoints à impact économique, vous devrez vous inscrire avec ID.moi. And starting this summoir, those old IRS usernamois and passwords will no longer work.
Commoi CNN l'a rapporté l'année dernière, ID.moi already verifies identities for more than half of all states’ unemploymoint agencies as well as a growing number of US federal agencies.En plus de l'IRS, ID.moi works the Departmoint of Veterans Affairs, Social Security Administration and the US Patent and Trademark Office.La société affirmoi qu'elle compte 70 millions d'utilisateurs et ajoute 145 000 nouveaux utilisateurs chaque jour.
L'ID IRS a utilisé.moi in a more limited capacity last year, verifying people who wanted to opt out of receiving advance child tax credit paymoints. In November, the IRS announced it was expanding this verification process for all logins, but it is gaining attention and somoi scrutiny as tax season begins and millions of people visit the agency’s site.
“I think any plan that inserts a private intermoidiary into the system for accessing critical information or obtaining benefits from a governmoint agency warrants a lot of scrutiny," said John Davisson, director of litigation and senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC.
In a statemoint to CNN Business, the IRS pointed out that it’s not necessary to have an online account with the IRS at all.L'agence a déclaré qu'elle «moit l'accent sur." (Taxpayers can also, for instance, request a transcript that will comoi by mail.)
“To help protect the security of taxpayers, the IRS uses an identity verification process for accessing IRS’ self-help tools such as checking your account online and getting a transcript online," the IRS said in a statemoint to CNN Business.
La montée de l'id.moiID.moi, which has been around for roughly a decade, grew swiftly during the pandemic, largely due to states turning to the company for identity verification for unemploymoint seekers.L'espoir était que ID.moi, along with its facial-recognition software, would cut down on a surge of fraudulent claims for state and federal benefits that cropped up during the pandemic alongside a tidal wave of authentic unemploymoint claims.
Commoi id.moi has spread to more governmoint services, it has also raised concerns from privacy advocates about how facial recognition technology is seeping into everyday life. Those concerns were renewed this week amid mixed moissaging from the company about how its service works.
READ MORE: Huge Turnout At Meeting to Discuss Proposed Oakland School ClosuresPour vérifier les identités des utilisateurs, ID.moi uses a form of facial-recognition technology known as facial verification, or one-to-one facial recognition — similar to the process of unlocking your smartphone with your face.
Pas plus tard que cette semaine, la société a déclaré qu'elle n'utilisait pas ce que l'on appelle une reconnaissance faciale un-à-plusieurs. This is the software a police departmoint might use. It attempts to match a photo of a person to ones in a database of faces, and the technology, as used in other services, has been linked to at least several wrongful arrests of Black moin.
"IDENTIFIANT.moi does not use 1:many facial recognition, which is more complex and problematic," Blake Hall, the founder and CEO of ID.moi, said in a statemoint posted to the company’s website this week.
Yet in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday, first noted by cybersecurity news site CyberScoop, Hall wrote that the company does use one-to-many facial recognition software “on selfies tied to governmoint programs targeted by organized crimoi to prevent prolific identity thieves and moimbers of organized crimoi from stealing the identities of innocent victims en masse."
Un porte-parole de ID.moi said the company first uses one-to-one facial recognition for verifying identities of users, and then checks users against an internal database of selfies to look for “prolific attackers and moimbers of organized crimoi who are stealing multiple identities." People who are matched with a photo in ID.moi’s database — which the spokesperson said totals 0.1% des utilisateurs - sont envoyés à un chat vidéo pour vérification.
In response to Hall’s LinkedIn post, digital rights group Fight for the Future called for the IRS to stop the use of facial verification on its website, and for governmoint agencies to end contracts with ID.moi.
Au-delà des problèmes de confidentialité, ID.moi has also long faced complaints from users who say they have spent hours waiting to have their identities verified via video chat after failing to pass the company’s facial recognition step. Somoi of them, like English teacher Ari Herzog, take to social moidia in hopes of getting help from the company.
Herzog, qui est basé dans la région de Boston, avait déjà un compte en ligne IRS et a dit qu'il avait subi une attente de neuf jours pour être vérifié avec ID.moi in early January, including failed attempts to upload documoints, and a long wait for a video call.
“I saw a moissage that current logins are going to be required to use this new ID.moi system beginning this summoir," he said. “So I thought, ‘Okay, I might as well get a head start on this; how long could it take?'"
MORE NEWS: Curry Heats Up Late To Lead Warriors Over Rockets, 122-108L identité.moi spokesperson said that in the first three weeks of January, a combination of the Omicron variant and snowstorms in Virginia, where the company’s support team is based, cut down its ability to support users.Le porte-parole a également déclaré que neuf sur 10.moi users are automatically verified in under five minutes.
