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
(Of mild interest, irs.gov doesn't appear to even have a terms page, rather only a Privacy Policy and Accessibility page.)
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?
2) Anyone know what happened to login.gov?
Right now the login page [3] lists only id.me.
Over a year ago it was announced [4] login.gov was supposed to be available [5].
Login.gov appears to be a USDS/18F project [6] and would seem more palatable than id.me. Why did it fail this year?
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/us/politics/irs-facial-re...
[3] https://sa.www4.irs.gov/secureaccess/ui/
[4] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2022/02/irs-...
[5] https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2023/03/irs-cio-mov...
[6] https://www.usds.gov/report-to-congress/2017/07/login-dot-go...
Could you please be more specific? How do you know?
The flow I've been using goes like this, starting at the IRS website:
1) irs.gov homepage -> click 'Sign in to Your Account'
2) https://www.irs.gov/payments/your-online-account -> click 'Sign in to your Online Account'
3) https://sa.www4.irs.gov/secureaccess/ui/?TYPE=blahblah (uuid/session url param)
I'd consider using login.gov, but apparently someone didn't finish the job yet even though it's been at least one year since this was announced.
It occurs to me SSO is nice in theory but one might surmise the diffusion of responsibility is problematic.
I only signed up because the IRS said they were closing the BofA/Wells PO boxes. Perhaps they were bluffing.
