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Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me Over Selfie Data

Summary: Four Democratic senators - Booker, Markey, Padilla and Wyden - asked the FTC to investigate ID.me over what they call deceptive statements about its use of one-to-many facial recognition, after CEO Blake Hall acknowledged in a January 2022 LinkedIn post that the company does use it and ID.me edited earlier blog posts and white papers saying otherwise. The IRS dropped its facial-scan requirement in February 2022 and pledged to delete biometric data shared with ID.me, though applicants still verify through ID.me or Login.gov, and the House Oversight and Reform Committee opened its own investigation in March.

Bottom line: The senators cite NIST's Facial Recognition Vendor Test finding false-match rates up to 100 times higher for people from West Africa, East Africa and East Asia than Eastern Europe - meaning a one-to-many system can wrongly deny benefits for weeks or months to Black and Asian Americans, and ID.me's response to the letter was to cite $238 billion in fraud prevention rather than address the recognition question.

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