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Is Id.me and login.gov the same thing?

• toomuchtodo 2y ago
  ID.me is a for profit private provider of identity proofing services. Login.gov is provided by the US General Services Administration. All federal agencies are moving to Login.gov. IRS is one of the last digital services that will move. There were some congressional hearings on ID.me, due to distorting the truth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851 ("HN: IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool (Feb 2022)") https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691325 (a previous comment I wrote on the topic) https://cyberscoop.com/idme-irs-identity-verification-congress/ https://cyberscoop.com/idme-irs-identity-verification-congre... ("ID.me misled IRS on processing times for identity verification, congressional investigators found") https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-ceo-backtracks-on-claims-company-doesnt-use-powerful-facial-recognition-tech/ https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-ceo-backtracks-on-claims-compan... ("ID.me CEO backtracks on claims company doesn’t use powerful facial recognition tech") https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-aclu-oregon-states-messaging-facial-recognition/ https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-aclu-oregon-states-messaging-fa... ("Documents shed light on ID.me’s messaging to states about powerful facial recognition tech") https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/id-me-made-baseless-pandemic-fraud-claims-to-win-contracts-congress-says/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/id-me-made-basel... ("ID.me lied to IRS about unemployment fraud, average wait times, House Dems say")