Apparently starting next filing season, irs.gov will require the public to use "something else" to login vs the traditional username/password I've been using for a while, presumably managed by the IRS's own servers.<p>Two questions:
1) id.me seems to have a spotty track record given the $86 million we paid for the two year contract [1].
Setting aside the weirdness of being required to go through a private corporation to see my own government data, I noticed their terms [2] Section 19 lists _mandatory arbitration_. Awful<p>(Of mild interest, irs.gov doesn't appear to even have a terms page, rather only a Privacy Policy and Accessibility page.)<p>It's 2023 and the public is online. Why should the public be required to go through a third party to access government services they already paid for?<p>2) Anyone know what happened to login.gov?<p>Right now the login page [3] lists only id.me.<p>Over a year ago it was announced [4] login.gov was supposed to be available [5].<p>Login.gov appears to be a USDS/18F project [6] and would seem more palatable than id.me. Why did it fail this year?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/us/politics/irs-facial-recognition.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/us/politics/irs-facial-re...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.id.me/terms" rel="nofollow">https://www.id.me/terms</a><p>[3] <a href="https://sa.www4.irs.gov/secureaccess/ui/" rel="nofollow">https://sa.www4.irs.gov/secureaccess/ui/</a><p>[4] <a href="https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2022/02/irs-plans-pivot-to-login-gov-lets-users-create-online-accounts-without-facial-recognition/" rel="nofollow">https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2022/02/irs-...</a><p>[5] <a href="https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2023/03/irs-cio-moving-treasury-cto-post/383780/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2023/03/irs-cio-mov...</a><p>[6] <a href="https://www.usds.gov/report-to-congress/2017/07/login-dot-gov/" rel="nofollow">https://www.usds.gov/report-to-congress/2017/07/login-dot-go...</a>