Carpe-Diem

This is a horrible idea. As a person who has already gone through identity theft, the moment a breech occurs, it'll be like a free-for-all on the black market of people selling your identity, they will have everything they need to do that. The risk-to-benefit scenario here is clearly way on the side of risk. Agree with TBone that it is shady, obviously someone is benefiting from this and it isn't the average tax payer, that is sure.
 
The webcam thing is also beyond idiotic. Not everyone has a high quality webcam and facial recognition technology has been show to be difficult to make foolproof. Tech dystopia just seems to get worse every day.

And when a data breech occurs, they will not tell anyone for months.

No, not at all. The CEO of the company says that they employ multiple layers of security and their policy states that they will not use the verification information for any type of marketing or promotional purposes.
 
I so totally trust them. 

Btw, the title of the article focuses on the selfies. Wish that was the only source of concern. 
 
You have to upload sensitive documents on a private company website, plus literally showing them to a random unknown person during a non secure web cam session. It's like a hackers/identity thieves dream. 

It sounds nightmarish and it seems you cannot opt out: you must give ALL your information to IDme or you simply won't have access to the IRS site.
 
I completely agree with the comments against giving all your sensitive information to a private company. 
 
One comment says that people fought back against these ID.me requirement when it was implemented at EDD and were successful.
 
I truly hope that many will complain and IRS will give another option to log in, because this is so amazingly wrong.