IRS to allow selling your data

And just the other day I wrote about credit bureaus selling your data to everyone and their dogs.

Here we have the IRS suggesting relaxing the rules that tax preparers live by when they're preparing your federal tax returns. The suggested change in rules would allow the tax preparers to sell data to data brokers, but also protect your data by allowing consumers to opt-out from sending your tax documents to be prepared offshore.

Wonderful rule change. Protectionism - yes, that very same thing George Bush said never works in his last State of the Union address, I guess the memo didn't quite make it to IRS - and relaxed data privacy regulations in the same package.

I wish I could say I'm making this shit up.

-TPP