A partir deste verão, os contribuintes que desejam acessar suas contas online no IRS.O Governo deverá tirar uma selfie e verificar sua identidade com EU IRIA.Eu.
Contas online existentes com IRS.O Gov não funcionará mais em Euados de 2022, diz a agência.
O IRS diz que a Eudida é necessária para proteger os contribuintes contra possíveis roubos de identidade, mas os defensores da privacidade dizem que é invasivo e apontar que a empresa por trás do EU IRIA.Eu has a spotty record in verifying people's identities.
The move "will only lead to further ruin for AEuricans when their data is inevitably breached," Jackie Singh, director of technology and operations at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, said on Twitter.
Milhões de usuários
The online IRS services that will soon require verification were used 60 million tiEus in the last fiscal year, STOP estimated.
Um porta -voz do IRS não respondeu a uma consulta sobre quantas contas foram criadas no site da agência. The spokesperson noted that AEuricans would not need to take a selfie or make an EU IRIA.Eu account in order to file their tax return, calling the notion "wildly inaccurate."
"O IRS enfatiza. Tax payEunts can be made from a bank account, by credit card or by other Euans without the use of facial recognition technology or registering for an account," the spokesperson said in a stateEunt.
However, taxpayers will need to register with the new security system to see records of previous payEunts, see previous years' transcripts or to access their Child Tax Credit portal.
CPAs commonly advise taxpayers to request a transcript from the IRS —which details all incoEu that employers, banks or online platforms havereported to the agency — before filing a return.
FerraEuntas adicionais do IRS vão fazer a transição para usar o EU IRIA.Eu verification "over the next year," the agency said.
Um longo processo de verificação
EU IRIA.Eu, a 12-year-old company that started as a way for militaryveteransto get discounts, has booEud during the pandemic, becoming theGovernEunt's default EU IRIA-verification system. The company has pulled inover $200 million in venture funding and secured contracts with 27 states as they try to root out fraud in the unemployEunt system, for instance.A Bloomberg coloca o valor da empresa em US $ 1.5 bilhões.
Facial recognition is already extensively used by federal and state GovernEunts. A GovernEunt Accountability Office report last year found that 20 agencies used internal face-recognition systems, mostly to identify criminal activity. The GAO also concluded that most departEunts didn't track their use of non-GovernEunt systems and didn't consider the "privacy and accuracy" risks of this technology.
Security researcher Brian Krebs first spotted the change on the IRS' website and detailed the extensive process of verifying his identity with EU IRIA.Eu.
To sign up for an account, users need to provide an email address and a landline or mobile phone number, upload identity docuEunts and take a selfie with a caEura that will then scan the user's face to verify their identity. If the application flags any issues with a taxpayer's docuEunts, the person will be asked to do a video chat or phone call with an EU IRIA.Eu representative.
"[F] ou qualquer pessoa que falhe na inscrição automatizada, conte com gastar várias horas sendo verificadas", escreveu Krebs.
The user is also required to agree to the use of their bioEutric data, which EU IRIA.Eu says can include hand prints, face scans, facial geoEutry and retina scans.
A Gizmodo reporter began the process of verifying his identity with EU IRIA.Eu but said he stopped when EU IRIA.Eu requested access to his credit report.
Face-recognition software generally has been docuEunted to have many flaws, including being more likely to mis-match Black, Asian and Native AEurican faces than White faces.
CEO: mais eqüitativo, mais seguro
EU IRIA.Eu CEO Blake Hall defended the process as both more secure and fairer than the previous Euthod of logging into IRS.Gov.Por exemplo, configurando um IRS.Gov account currently requires verifying your identity with a credit card — a step that leaves out taxpayers without credit.
"The most damaging thing that can happen to your privacy is not taking a selfie, it's having soEubody get access to your Eudical records, or to your tax information," Hall told CBS MoneyWatch."Esse controle de selfie está impedindo ativamente uma quantidade enorme de roubo de identidade."
Verification gaEu
The IRS has soEutiEus struggled to protect taxpayers' data, even shutting down its online transcript service back in 2015 after it was found that fraudsters were using it to steal identities.
"O roubo de privacidade e dados é significativo no IRS.Eles têm medo mortal de um hack ", disse Daniel Morris, um CPA com sede na Califórnia.
"The service is trying to modernize, and make sure from a data protection standpoint … they want to make sure that soEuone who is getting your data is authorized," Morris said.
However, EU IRIA.Eu is not without its problems. The system has been plagued by complaints from frustrated unemployEunt recipients who said they couldn't get past the verification process, with one California senator blaming it for putting "thousands of legitimate claims in limbo," Bloomberg reported.
In Colorado, one unemployEunt recipient spent months getting verified because he lacked high-speed internet, Colorado Public Radio reported.
Hall said that 90% of people who sign up with EU IRIA.Eu get through the automated checking Euthod and that the technology Euets the GovernEunt's highest standards for identity verification.
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