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Summary

Elon Musk has requested access to the IRS's Integrated Data Retrieval System, which contains personal tax information for millions of Americans.

The request has not yet been granted but has raised alarm among privacy experts and government officials.

Critics fear Musk could misuse the data, especially given his existing federal contracts. The IRS is considering a memorandum to permit access, despite strict rules against unauthorized viewing.

A federal judge has already blocked DOGE from accessing Treasury data, but other agencies remain vulnerable.

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[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 76 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Increasingly I am only seeing one solution to this Musk problem.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Increasingly I am seeing Musk as the one solution to this problem:

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Piano wire and a train station?

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It is a classic for the Russian Oligarchs...what the hell, it's traditional.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah we need to start taxing these rich grifters.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 28 points 6 days ago

Yes taxes, I mean taxes.

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[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Feed him some prion-infected human brains then lock him up for 20 years?

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

he needs WAY more than 20 years for what he's done to the US.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

It can take that long for the prion disease to kick in.

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Careful, we might make him smarter.

[–] adm@lemm.ee 43 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Great, I'm about to get audited by the billionaire that probably doesn't pay taxes. Lovely.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Even better, the "audit" will be done by some teenager named "Big Balls".

I'm sure they have the wisdom, the experience, and level-headed presence of mind to properly deal with that kind of responsibility.

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[–] wreckus@lemmy.ca 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

From someone who took Records and Information Management years ago, this is a huge red flag and everyone in the US should be alarmed and pissed off about this.

Elon and his DOGE fools have no right to have access to American’s IRS records.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What? You don't think some teenager with a stupid online nickname and Wicked Cool 7331 Hax0r Coding Skillz has the right to your data and my data?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fuck Musk and ship him back to South Africa without a US passport.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fuck Musk but this thing of shipping people around is crap. Just jail him like any regular criminal.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nah, just put him in one of those idiot squishers like the Titan-1C that took out a handful of billionaires last year.

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[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm shocked they even asked

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

They figured they would try before they took it anyway just in case they could get some good PR

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So given that his little team of unqualified racist have already proven to leak classified data and can't secure a server with even basic security that someone on the homeserver community would do, it would be funny if this is how Trump's tax returns would come out to light.

[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

Hs team of probably cocaine addled computer whateversa re there to STEAL info. Not to fix, not to create. Bear that in mind.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How would that help make the government more efficient? What is his justification?

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[–] match@pawb.social 12 points 6 days ago

Read only access, right?

Right?

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 12 points 6 days ago

Hes good at doing things that look effective to slow ppl

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

The only positive thing here is that they ask instead of just take.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Oh, I'm sure it's all for good reasons of "efficiency" and more of fElon's altruism and deep concern for the country.

🙄

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And he'll get that access, I guarantee it. Hope I'm wrong.

[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 7 points 6 days ago

You're not wrong We're fucked. I'm waiting for everyone else to get mad enough to revolt with me. Fuck Elon Musk. No one voted for that cunt.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They'll start deporting American citizens who haven't paid their student loans. Back to America! To Guantanamo!

All office dudes are shaking in their pants.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago

No, we're not.

Since when has musk asked for anything? Aside from gov subsidies of course.

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