> ID.me uses a form of facial recognition known as facial verification, which compares a photo ID with a video selfie that a person takes on their phone

Noteworthy. This is not Clearview taking a face and returning a name, this is a service taking video and an ID photo and returning a boolean.

No one would be shocked if a clerk in a government office asked for an ID and looked at his face before approving unemployment benefits. Providing access to benefits over the internet is a strict improvement, pandemic or no, but it doesn’t seem unreasonable to subject people to a similar level of identity verification.