My most recent interaction with a government website that did this: Nota Fiscal.
Didn't have an account, so I had to go through their "first login" flow where it demanded my CPF, birth date and some other tax number thing I don't quite remember. That's all it takes to "verify" my identity, apparently.
It's a system that rolled out nationwide some time ago. I was forced to migrate to it after my city's nota fiscal system was deprecated. Don't remember if the local system was better or worse: my accountant signed up for it, not me.
Honestly, I don't even want them to fix any of this at this point. If they try, I have no doubt they'll double down on the surveillance and mandate facial recognition instead. And when people inevitably start deep faking it with AI, I have no doubt they'll destroy computer freedom because of it by requiring that everybody be restricted to locked down government approved phones.
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My most recent interaction with a government website that did this: Nota Fiscal.
Didn't have an account, so I had to go through their "first login" flow where it demanded my CPF, birth date and some other tax number thing I don't quite remember. That's all it takes to "verify" my identity, apparently.
It's a system that rolled out nationwide some time ago. I was forced to migrate to it after my city's nota fiscal system was deprecated. Don't remember if the local system was better or worse: my accountant signed up for it, not me.
Honestly, I don't even want them to fix any of this at this point. If they try, I have no doubt they'll double down on the surveillance and mandate facial recognition instead. And when people inevitably start deep faking it with AI, I have no doubt they'll destroy computer freedom because of it by requiring that everybody be restricted to locked down government approved phones.