From a prior discussion [0] my concern is some of the weird external contracting going on, which hopefully will change soon:<p>> So apparently using this thing requires people to sign up and interview through ID.me, a private company with some controversy around facial recognition stuff and a non-governmental domain in Montenegro.<p>> There's a certain flavor of very banal insanity here, as the US government (A) tries to outsource a core competency of identifying taxpayers in its jurisdiction and (B) promotes a domain name that should instead be a bad-answer in anti-phishing security training.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39688798">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39688798</a> ("Direct File officially opens in 12 pilot states")