Post #778142

Here's a tip for you privacy minded folks in the US. When you login to Social Security https://www.ssa.gov (and probably other US government websites) they now make you use either login.gov or id.me, both of which try to get you to upload pictures of your drivers license/passport and take a selfie or do a video call. If you don't want to do that, select the login.gov choice and then select in-person verification. You fill out some identify information online and then it generates a barcode that you take to a post office with your drivers license. At the post office the clerk scanned the barcode I was provided and scanned the barcode on the back of my license. That was it. No photos of my IDs or selfies to upload. About an hour later I got an email from login.gov that I was verified and all set. The least bad of the options. #privacy #ssa #infosec