2022年11月21日

通过ID在线验证。me本应帮助美国国税局(IRS)防止广泛的欺诈行为，同时为疫情期间最需要的人提供失业救济。相反，一些人获得验证的等待时间长达10个小时，在加州的一个案例中，实际上花了三天时间。众议院监督委员会进行了为期六个月的调查，发现有证据表明ID。据Politico报道，me“淡化了等待时间过长”，只提供与成功连接相关的数据，向联邦和州机构隐瞒了这个问题。这可能使那些最需要帮助的人无法获得援助，他们的技术获取不够可靠，无法在严重延迟的等待时间内保持联系。众议院监督与改革委员会主席、纽约州民主党众议员卡罗琳·马洛尼(Carolyn Maloney)在一份声明中称，调查发现的证据“令人震惊”。冠状病毒危机特别小组委员会主席詹姆斯·克莱伯恩(民主党- sc)众议员对ID表示失望。在美国迅速发放援助的努力中，联合国没有发挥合作伙伴的作用。克莱伯恩在一份声明中说:“国会在冠状病毒大流行开始时迅速采取行动，确保2200万新失业的美国人有失业福利来支付房租或抵押贷款，并维持餐桌上的食物。”他说:“在国家发生危机时，被委托实施关键项目的公司必须能够满足这些项目旨在造福的人民的需要。 We must continue to work to ensure that, in the future, companies hired to implement critical programs are up to the job.” Advertisement The House committees' investigation also lobbed allegations that ID.me made “baseless claims” to state and federal agencies about how much pandemic fraud was occurring. This, the press release said, was “in an apparent attempt to increase demand for its identity verification services.” “Despite repeated requests, ID.me could not provide the Committees with any methodology it used to support its CEO’s assertion in June 2021 that ‘America has lost more than $400 billion to fraudulent claims’ for unemployment benefits, or as ‘much as 50 percent of all unemployment monies,’” the press release said. Where ID.me CEO Blake Hall estimated that approximately $414 billion was lost—with seemingly no evidence to back this claim—the Department of Labor Office of Inspector General estimated the real figure was 10 times less, closer to $45.7 billion. The only sources ID.me provided to back up its much higher estimate post-dated the company’s estimate, and in one case, was based on the company’s estimate and not any other analysis. ID.me told Ars that it has nothing more to add, directing Ars to a company statement and a post on LinkedIn, where Hall disputed the investigation’s findings. “Today, House Oversight released a statement that inaccurately accused me of using a claim about fraud to win unemployment identity verification contracts,” Hall wrote on LinkedIn. “ID.me was already under contract with 43 government agencies, including 26 state unemployment agencies, before I ever made any estimate about $400B in improper unemployment payments,” Hall wrote. “We released our estimate as concerned citizens who were shocked at the extent of the fraud we were witnessing across states. Any assertion that we made a claim about fraud to advance our business omits the fact that 43 agencies chose ID.me before the statement was ever made.” As of last month, ID.me reported that its online identity verification services were still being used by 30 states and 10 federal agencies.