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Counter point: if you don’t do it, someone else might do it for you, stealing your identity, filing fake returns or unemployment etc.

I’m not worried about that, considering that it’s a small chance vs the large chance that the government will abuse any data they collect.

phillaholic
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They already have most of it. You can never protect yourself against the government you reside under in this way.

Regardless of what they already have, I still plan to avoid providing anything further that I can control. More images improve facial recognition accuracy, and they may only have old pictures of me from my driver’s license. Providing a “video selfie” is like the AIDS penis anal rape level of privacy invasion and I won’t do it.

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