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    Default Freaky!! IRS checking our email accounts to tax us?!!

    I got this on my facebook wall Because I like Mike Huckabee:

    If you have an email account, your past may come back to tax you…Most of us let old emails pile up in our boxes and never even look at them. But guess who might be? The IRS. The ACLU suspected that the tax agency might be snooping through Americans’ email accounts, looking for evidence of tax evasion. So they filed a Freedom of Information request. This week, the IRS handed over a pile of doc
    uments that suggest they not only read taxpayers’ old emails, they see nothing wrong with it. In 2010, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that accessing emails without a warrant is unconstitutional. But the IRS papers show that their attorneys believe that applies just to the Sixth Circuit, which only covers Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee. Another internal IRS handbook claims the Fourth Amendment doesn’t protect emails because Internet users do not have “a reasonable expectation of privacy.” This is absurd and an abuse of our Constitutional rights. Congress—fix it!

    For more of the Huckabee Report visit MikeHuckabee.com.

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    Default Re: Freaky!! IRS checking our email accounts to tax us?!!

    I'm sorry if this may be better off in the other work area. This could affect sugar babies, lingerie housecleaners, escorts and private dancers I suppose...

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    Default Re: Freaky!! IRS checking our email accounts to tax us?!!

    wouldn't surprise me if they were doing that, and probably worse.

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    Default Re: Freaky!! IRS checking our email accounts to tax us?!!

    ugh glad I don't use my email like that =< I generally only put income tracking stuff when I used to do it in paper notebooks, needless to say I will def be keeping it "old school" might be a good idea to delete any old excel/microsoft stuff if you got income tracking on there too, print it and delete it, I could see them requesting that shit too

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    Default Re: Freaky!! IRS checking our email accounts to tax us?!!

    this is actually the result of an ACLU freedom of information request. The IRS disclosed in their information release that IRS policy does not require obtaining of a warrant in order to gather information about any American from any internet source ... e-mails ... website postings ... social media ... text messages etc.




    Apparently, communications via the internet do not enjoy the same 'private communications' status as snail mail, nor do ( broadcast radio wave based ) cell phone communications enjoy the same 'private communications' status as land lines.

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    Scary scary stuff! Oh, they are doing muchh worse Simone Questella, I think if something is sent or received in an email, it's pretty much permanent... Even if you delete your account. Anyway, I've heard a lot of talk, maybe hype, that what happens on the internet is pretty much eternal.. An IT guy can pull up anything that's ever happened.

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    Default Re: Freaky!! IRS checking our email accounts to tax us?!!

    Yea I know there is a site where you can type in a domain name and date and get what that domain looked like on said date, I can't remember what it's called but I know it's out there

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