The UK's tax office must destroy 7 million voiceprints. Would that happen in the U.S.?

Imagine the IRS sitting on a vast database of unique voiceprints collected from millions of citizens.

That's basically what happened in the U.K., but at least the country has an agency to fix the problem. The U.S. has no such safeguard — and one of its agencies has already started collecting face scans.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs office (HMRC) has been instructing customers to submit "voiceprints" since 2017, and it may not have received proper consent to do so. 

Now, the nation's data protection enforcement agency, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has filed an official order that the HMRC must delete the Voice ID data of 7 million citizens. It has 28 days to comply with the May 9 order.  Read more...