Presumably the 143 million identities are valid. Would be an epic troll if 99% were salt/fake only to detect and track use. Authentication is verifying someon

Presumably the 143 million identities are valid. Would be an epic troll if 99% were salt/fake only to detect and track use. Authentication is verifying someone is the person represented by a valid ID Authorization in this case is some authenticated person having the legal authority to look at or fill out someone's tax paperwork, not necessarily the same as the person under discussion, consider my accountant or my wife's PoA over her elderly uncle, doing taxes and financial things. You can be super black pilled about the IRS or perhaps slightly more white pilled that they're only doing validation... if I live at 221B Baker Street and I type in 2218 Baker Street it would be nice if that could be caught and fixed. Yeah, yeah, I know, reality is probably some fuzzy location in between. Although it sounds weird for a company based on gatekeeping "secret" data (which hasn't been secret in a long time) to allow its secret data to leak, its an old business model to create a problem which surprisingly enough you also have a profitable solution. Its highly likely in a year or two we'll all have Equifax smart chip ID cards. Like a military CAC card but with 100 times more users.