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At this point, after years of warnings, everyone should be firmly aware of the dangers of publicly posting incriminating photos or status updates on social networking sites. Exes, parents, current and potential employers, teachers, and coaches have all earned recognition as social networking stalkers.
According to the Wall Street Journal, an ominous and more terrifying entity is beginning to stealthily observe its targets through sites like Facebook and MySpace. In order to collect outstanding revenue, the feared Taxman has been monitoring social networking home pages of evasive debtors in order to track down, and effectively shake, shadowy deadbeats.
Although the IRS hasn't publicly commented on its investigative Web practices, state tax collection agents in Minnesota, Nebraska, and California have all reportedly located, and collected thousands of dollars from, elusive swindlers and shysters based on ill-conceived status updates or public posts. Other states said to be considering the implementation of these surveillance techniques include Oregon and Wisconsin.
Some states restrict their departments' collection of Web information to that taken from publicly accessible pages. So, if you want your affairs to remain private (especially if those affairs are illegal), keep your profiles locked. Unless, of course, you just want to make the next 'Facebook's Dumbest' list. [From: The Wall Street Journal]
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Subscribe to commentsMillersonSep 2nd 2009 8:47AM
Instead of trying to shake every last dime out of middle class Americans, how about the government tries to use some fricking common sense when it comes to SPENDING that money? Nearly a billion dollars for building the US embassy in Iraq? Which tax payer would have gladly given up half his paycheck for that? Another billion dollars for public relations to promote America to third world countries with online advertising to attract them to get free green cards - again, which tax payer approves of their money going to this? You can not fix America by voting for the candidate you like, because they are all crooks and part of the same system.
BethSep 11th 2009 11:42PM
This whole mess just makes me SICK! Tax all of us for this and for that! I live in FLORIDA and I have been taxed to death this year most of ALL. There R no jobs here unless someone knows something I do not know. I have been putting in application after application (mostly over the computer of course) and now we have to worry about facebook being used to find those who owe taxes. I ASK when is this gonna ever End? IS THE GOV. JUST BEING DRIVEN BY OUR HARD TIMES? PLEASE TELL ME: WHEN MY LORD IS GONNA GET HERE I AM SO READY. We are living on HELL on earth.