Fresh on the heels of a massive data breach, Equifax is once again making news. This time the story is that the IRS recently awarded the company a multi-million dollar contract to help prevent fraud. The contact in question is designed to verify identities, something most people are shaking their heads at given the identify theft threat arising from Equifax’s data breach. The IRS claims the contract was awarded so it could be business as usual for the taxing agency, since the tasks performed pursuant to the contract are ones Equifax has performed for the agency in the past. The IRS defines the contract award as a “stopgap” measure, to avoid an interruption in operations. Nonetheless, citizens and politicians alike widely criticized the decision.

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