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IRS to monitor Facebook, Twitter for tax cheats

Is the IRS about to get too close for comfort? New reports brought to light by one privacy and data security expert suggest that this tax filing season the Internal Revenue Service may be monitoring social media for any clues of tax cheats.

According to Kristen Mathews, a partner attorney at law firm Proskauer Rose LLP who specializes in privacy and data security, there are reports that the IRS will be checking into individual Facebook and Twitter accounts for improprieties.

Government agencies may be creeping on their own employees by demanding usernames and passwords to social networking sites such as Facebook. Interestingly, this violates Facebook's own terms of service, as Facebook "prohibit(s) anyone from soliciting the login information or accessing an account belonging to someone else" In this writer's opinion, these government agencies would seem to be also violating the federal governments own proposed laws that would prohibit anybody from misrepresenting themselves on the internet.

"In their efforts to vet applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person's social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around."

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This is a video that’s been appearing on hacked Facebook profiles. Saw this shared at another facebook page (posted it willingly) and all I can say is WOW!

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If You Hate Taxes . . .

Found at the excellent blog What Would Jack Do?:

If you’re a conservative who hates taxes, please do the following.

Do not use Medicare.
Do not use Social Security
Do not become a member of the US military, who are paid with tax dollars.
Do not ask the National Guard to help you after a disaster.
Do not call 911 when you get hurt.

Transportation Security Administration challenges and failures will be the focus of a joint hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Monday. Members will solicit questions from the public via their Facebook pages to ask TSA officials at the hearing. Should you share your Facebook info with the Gestapo in order to ask them questions or relate a TSA horror story? Will you be added to a watchlist? You decide.

An elderly couple stands to make millions of dollars after purchasing more than $600,000 worth of lottery tickets over a three-day period, according to a report by the Boston Globe.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/01/elderly-couple-cheats-lottery-...