IRS: We can check your e-mails, texts w/o a warrant.

[TheGreatGatsby]

In a 2009 handbook, the IRS said the Fourth Amendment does not protect emails because Internet users "do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications." A 2010 presentation by the IRS Office of General Counsel reiterated the policy.

IRS: We can read emails without warrant - The Hill's Hillicon Valley

 

[ScreamingEagle]

they're into alot more than just your emails....

The Internal Revenue Service is collecting a lot more than taxes this year -- it's also acquiring a huge volume of personal information on taxpayers' digital activities, from eBay auctions to Facebook posts and, for the first time ever, credit card and e-payment transaction records, as it expands its search for tax cheats to places it's never gone before.
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The agency declined to comment on how it will use its new technology. But agency officials have been outlining plans at industry conferences, working with IBM, EMC and other private-sector specialists. In presentations, officials have said they may use the big data for:

•Charting and analyzing social media such as Facebook.
•Targeting audits by matching tax filings to social media or electronic payments.
•Tracking individual Internet addresses and emailing patterns.
•Sorting data in 32,000 categories of metadata and 1 million unique "attributes."
•Machine learning across "neural" networks.
•Statistical and agent-based modeling.
•Relationship analysis based on Social Security numbers and other personal identifiers.

IRS tracks your digital footprint - 1 - - MSN Money

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

It's no coincidence that this was published in 09 and reaffirmed in 10. Obama doesn't give two sheeots about the Constitution.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

But King Obama did it! He has a mandate! Everything a President does it constitutional, because he's the President!

 

[ScienceRocks]

Obama thinks he can do what ever the fuck he wants. The piece of shit is a thug on the order of chavez! Read that Obongo. Come in get me!!!

 

[tjvh]

How long before this gets blamed on Bush, or Republicans?

 

[ScienceRocks]

The democrats are masters at spinning and lieing. This is how they get their agenda through...This and dividing everyone against ourselves.

I hate these cocksuckers.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

How long before this gets blamed on Bush, or Republicans?

Why didn't you know? Bush allowed the IRS to continue its racket for 8 years! A racket of extorting money to pay the interest on the Debt to the private investors of the Federal Reserve!

Of course it's his fault!