Comment by bigyabai
7 months ago
Given that DOGE is currently "cleaning up" the IRS, I figure it's only a matter of time before America invites "trusted commercial partners" to "analyze citizen data" for a "more efficient" auditing process.
It's about reducing the burden on taxpaying Americans, or something like that.
They did that last week.
Palantir got the contract and estimates it’ll take a month to index all the IRS data, rip out the access controls and slap a nice search gui on top.
Palantir has had a contract with the IRS since at least 2018 to help comb through IRS data to find audit targets: https://archive.is/9vnDa
What they probably get now is even more control over how that data is given to them and how much of it they can access.
> I figure it's only a matter of time before America invites "trusted commercial partners" to "analyze citizen data" for a "more efficient" auditing process
No need to partner with the IRS, the DOGE dudes have an external drives in a sock drawer at home, ready for their next Fintech startup. For reasons attributed to "world class algorithms" the Fintech will be preternaturally good at targeting financial services to individuals, and assessing credit-worthiness given nothing but a name and zip code...
I too would work for "free" to gain access to that valuable data. If I didn't have a half-decent moral compass.