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To: FJB who wrote (708153)	4/9/2013 9:18:37 PM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 1573758

People lie and people use other people's accounts. Proves zero.

To: FJB who wrote (708153)	4/9/2013 11:00:25 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573758

Fubho, here is the original article from U.S. News & World Report: money.usnews.com While I share the suspicions of those who fear "Big Brother," I can't think of any reason why the IRS shouldn't be allowed to data-mine this information. I do think privacy laws ought to be beefed up so that the government cannot legally obtain info you volunteer to any website without a court order. That way, the IRS cannot arbitrarily demand, for example, that Amazon give up the data it has on your purchasing habits. On the other hand, I do think anything you post publicly is fair game. That includes Facebook posts, Tweets, and even posts on this forum (which is why I wonder why some of the trolls on this board say what they say). This does bring up the need to vastly improve data security and privacy across the Internet, though. Tenchusatsu