NPR: Want information from the IRS? For some, the agency wants a selfie

February 7, 2022

Jeramie Scott, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, says one of the problems outsourcing this information is whether it’s kept safe. “What it does is create another kind of target for criminals. Obviously, data breaches are a big issue. And you know, the more areas that sensitive information is, the more likely it [will] be the target of a data breach.”

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