I'm skeptical that this "video ID" thing is going to be as effective as the vendor is promising it will be, but government needs to be doing _something_ more ef

I'm skeptical that this "video ID" thing is going to be as effective as the vendor is promising it will be, but government needs to be doing _something_ more effective to authenticate tax filers. At the start of the pandemic fraudsters used my PII to collect unemployment benefits through Washington State ESD. As I understood it, all the fraudsters had to do was fill in my name, SSN, and address into a web form and click the "give me moneys now plz" button. Then to add insult to injury ESD shared my fraudulently-provided PII with Accellion, who promptly re-leaked it. My PII has been leaked in at least 4 separate breaches that I'm aware off, the culprits ranging from health insurance providers to cell phone companies. Whatever collections of PII are circulating among groups of criminals, my info has been in them for years now. This means that every year I have to worry about whether a fraudster is going to submit an IRS return in my name before I have a chance to get all the documents I need to file, and then I'll have to deal with that massive PITA on top of all the typical bullshit that is paying taxes in the United States.