The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE

Re:The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data wit... by 0xEF on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @12:26PM (#44572868)

It just adds an extra step that keeps the general public away from your PII. The post office knows who owns that PO box and where that person actually lives. A simple subpoena makes that information available to whatever arm of enforcement needs it.

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Re:The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data wit... by lazide on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @12:31PM (#44572930)

Every info aggregator (including ones that post crap online) already has both bits of info and associates them.

Go ahead, do some searches on yourself - I had accurate addresses and poboxes I’d long since forgotten about.

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Re:The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data wit... by 0xEF on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @12:53PM (#44573243)

Yeah, I know. It's disturbing to say the least. The thinking with PO Boxes is just left over from a time when it was possible to use them as an extra layer of protection. It's barely an inconvenience to anyone who wants to get your address, anymore.

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Re:The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data wit... by mindslight on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @01:17PM (#44573537)

A simple what? "subpoena"? Is that like a new term for a bulk database retrieval?

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