Well now, this little development gives me the Warm ‘N Fuzzies:
This would allow the IRS to meaningfully link tens of millions of tax returns, billions of information returns, and trillions of bank and credit card transactions, phone records and even social media posts. For example, if a U.S. citizen moves money from a Swiss bank to some other offshore bank, then uses credit or debit cards to spend the money in the U.S., Palantir’s software can link those transactions. It could also flag a person whose tax return shows relatively low annual income but whose social-media posts indicate something entirely different.
As Gummint is so fond of saying:
Me, I feel more like this:
…preparatory to this:
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the range for a little AK-47 time.
I laugh at the the worry over “supposed” govt technological monitoring. It AIN’T speculation, or could be. The govt has been hoovering up ALL digital data for several decades. ALL. One needs to only listen to William Binney former Technical Director of the NSA. He designed much of their systems.The NSA cooling and electrical requirements for their Utah facility are off the chart. There is a reason. They aren’t cooking brisket. They have been crunching all this data for DECADES. If you can think of it, they THOUGHT of it 20 years earlier.
The other year there was the whole bruhaha over the password to get into a Apple phone. The govt had multiple means to get into the phone while all the court stuff was going on. More importantly they had already recorded all cell phones transmissions and can reconstruct any history of a phone. They did not need a pwd. A major activity of law enforcement is figuring out how to lie in court about how investigations got information.
The lying bastards are 20 to 30 yrs at least ahead of anything you see in the press. By God what do ppl think they have spent the TRILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS ON ? We lost our freedoms 30 years ago.
You’re understating the problem. It’s worst than that.
“It could also flag a person whose tax return shows relatively low annual income but whose social-media posts indicate something entirely different.”
Anyone that stupid deserves what he gets.
I pay cash as much as possible, double plus for sure for stuff like booze, my guns and ammo.
Coming soon: Big money will be made in alternative private sector cash. I think most gold-bugs are crazy, but they do have some points. My younger bother convinced me long ago to keep a few ounces of the stuff, in small bits so it’s tradable, hidden in a place I hope I can find when my Alzheimer’s gets bad.