ITIF, Former DHS Exec Push Back on Criticisms of Facial Recognition Use by US Agency
February 21, 2022
The Internal Revenue Agency (IRS) should have taken a more measured response to the controversy around its use of identity verification company ID.me, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) suggests, even as a report by CyberScoop alleges that the company was two-faced in its public assertion that one-to-many facial recognition technology was not used to identify unemployment benefits applicants while it continued to quietly use biometric identification technology. The deployment also found a defender in a former DHS official, who writes for the Washington Post that proposed alternatives will negatively impact U.S. taxpayers.
