TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In

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• The IRS backed off from using "ID.me" back in 2022.[1] But apparently it is back. Is Treasury requiring face recognition, like last time?

  And of course this will be used to track down illegal aliens.

  [1] https://www.biometricupdate.com/202202/downwind-of-irs-decis...

  Animats 3m ago

• Why did the US gov decide to rely on a TLD controlled by Montenegro for this seemingly important and sensitive service?

  bramhaag 58m ago

• TreasuryDirect's login and account recovery experience has been notorious for years, both for user experience and for people easily getting locked out for weeks. It's good they're being careful with this rollout, as it serves both individual and institutional accounts where dollar amounts involved are epic even by bank standards, and rarely checked by hand, so even single account breaches are serious.

  waldrews 54m ago

• Unfortunate it’s not login.gov but definitely an improvement over their bespoke customer identity and access management solution.

  toomuchtodo 1h ago

• > To set up a new ID.me account, you’ll need two government-issued forms of identity ready.

  That will be rolled out before anyone can access the world wide web. And they will continue to claim it is for the protection of kids ...

  shevy-java 41m ago