Facial Verification Won't Fight Fraud

While it’s laudable to fortify struggling Americans during an ongoing crisis, bad actors have made unemployment fraud a serious problem. But while facial verification is common for consumer devices, it’s relatively rare for government services. You might believe facial verification is harmless because the controversies that won’t go away mostly revolve around facial recognition. Our use of facial verification increasingly normalizes the expectation that our bodies should be used as a form of government ID. Whenever the government embraces facial verification and recognition, it creates momentum for further creep.