Judge rules #IRS broke #law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving #DHS data A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency & federal #immigration authorities.
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Judge rules #IRS broke #law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving #DHS data
A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency & federal #immigration authorities.#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/26/irs-data-federal-judge-dhs-illegal/ -
Judge rules #IRS broke #law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving #DHS data
A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency & federal #immigration authorities.#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/26/irs-data-federal-judge-dhs-illegal/A federal judge has found that the #IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with #immigration enforcement officials last summer.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued the ruling Thursday as part of ongoing litigation over a data-sharing arrangement between the IRS & the #DHS.#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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A federal judge has found that the #IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with #immigration enforcement officials last summer.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued the ruling Thursday as part of ongoing litigation over a data-sharing arrangement between the IRS & the #DHS.#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
Federal #law requires that before the #IRS hands over a taxpayer’s address, a requesting agency must first provide the IRS with the name & address of the person it’s looking for. The requirement exists to ensure that the government can access confidential tax records only for individuals it has already specifically identified.
#Trump #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Federal #law requires that before the #IRS hands over a taxpayer’s address, a requesting agency must first provide the IRS with the name & address of the person it’s looking for. The requirement exists to ensure that the government can access confidential tax records only for individuals it has already specifically identified.
#Trump #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
The ruling finds that #DHS did not follow this #law. The judge wrote that the vast majority of the nearly 47,300 taxpayer addresses the #IRS shared with #ICE in August were disclosed without the IRS confirming that ICE provided a valid address for the person whose records it was seeking.
#Trump #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Judge rules #IRS broke #law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving #DHS data
A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency & federal #immigration authorities.#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/26/irs-data-federal-judge-dhs-illegal/@Nonilex it will be worth considering applying RICO laws to decision makers in government agencies.
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The ruling finds that #DHS did not follow this #law. The judge wrote that the vast majority of the nearly 47,300 taxpayer addresses the #IRS shared with #ICE in August were disclosed without the IRS confirming that ICE provided a valid address for the person whose records it was seeking.
#Trump #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
“The #IRS violated the [#IRC] approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to #ICE ... without confirming that ICE’s request set forth the ‘address of the taxpayer with respect to whom the requested return information relate[d],’” the judge’s opinion stated.
The case is now before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, where the government is appealing Kollar-Kotelly’s November order that blocked the data-sharing arrangement. -
“The #IRS violated the [#IRC] approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to #ICE ... without confirming that ICE’s request set forth the ‘address of the taxpayer with respect to whom the requested return information relate[d],’” the judge’s opinion stated.
The case is now before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, where the government is appealing Kollar-Kotelly’s November order that blocked the data-sharing arrangement.WaPo reported that the #IRS had improperly shared #confidential #tax information of thousands of individuals with #immigration enforcement officials. That report was confirmed by a subsequent court filing by Dottie A. Romo, the IRS’s chief risk & control officer.
#DHS officials have defended the data-sharing agreement as necessary to crack down on illegal #immigration. [but you can’t break a law because you think another law was broken.] -
WaPo reported that the #IRS had improperly shared #confidential #tax information of thousands of individuals with #immigration enforcement officials. That report was confirmed by a subsequent court filing by Dottie A. Romo, the IRS’s chief risk & control officer.
#DHS officials have defended the data-sharing agreement as necessary to crack down on illegal #immigration. [but you can’t break a law because you think another law was broken.]…Taxpayer advocates raised concerns about the data-sharing agreement since it began. Romo’s declaration stated that in thousands of cases, ICE’s requests contained addresses that were incomplete—featuring entries such as “Failed to Provide,” “Unknown Address,” or simply “NA NA.” In other cases, addresses were missing street names or street numbers. In still others, #ICE listed jails, detention facilities or prisons as a taxpayer’s address w/o including the building’s street location.
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…Taxpayer advocates raised concerns about the data-sharing agreement since it began. Romo’s declaration stated that in thousands of cases, ICE’s requests contained addresses that were incomplete—featuring entries such as “Failed to Provide,” “Unknown Address,” or simply “NA NA.” In other cases, addresses were missing street names or street numbers. In still others, #ICE listed jails, detention facilities or prisons as a taxpayer’s address w/o including the building’s street location.
In Thursday’s opinion, the judge used pointed language to describe the #IRS’s verification standard. Under the government’s process, she wrote, #ICE could have submitted a request with an address like “Don’t Care 12345” or simply “00000” & still received a taxpayer’s home address from the agency.
#Trump #law #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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In Thursday’s opinion, the judge used pointed language to describe the #IRS’s verification standard. Under the government’s process, she wrote, #ICE could have submitted a request with an address like “Don’t Care 12345” or simply “00000” & still received a taxpayer’s home address from the agency.
#Trump #law #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
“This confirms what we’ve been saying all along: that the #IRS has an unlawful policy that violates the Internal Revenue Code’s protections by releasing these addresses in a way that violates the law’s requirements,” said Nina Olson, founder of the Center for Taxpayer Rights, which has sued the government over the disclosures.
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“This confirms what we’ve been saying all along: that the #IRS has an unlawful policy that violates the Internal Revenue Code’s protections by releasing these addresses in a way that violates the law’s requirements,” said Nina Olson, founder of the Center for Taxpayer Rights, which has sued the government over the disclosures.
#Trump #law #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalismOlson emphasized that there was no precedent to her knowledge of a judge finding tens of thousands of simultaneous violations of federal law regarding taxpayer confidentiality.
“I don’t know of any opinion about the #IRS like this,” she added. “The kinds of mass requests that are coming in are unprecedented.”#Trump #law #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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@Nonilex it will be worth considering applying RICO laws to decision makers in government agencies.
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WaPo reported that the #IRS had improperly shared #confidential #tax information of thousands of individuals with #immigration enforcement officials. That report was confirmed by a subsequent court filing by Dottie A. Romo, the IRS’s chief risk & control officer.
#DHS officials have defended the data-sharing agreement as necessary to crack down on illegal #immigration. [but you can’t break a law because you think another law was broken.][but you can’t break a law because you think another law was broken.]
Especially if the "another law ... broken" was only a civil infraction? Or if there was no violation of law at all...
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