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Is 'Friending' in Your Future? Better Pay Your Taxes First (wsj.com)
13 points by edw519 on Aug 30, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Don't tell lies that can be falsified by looking up publicly-available data. Is this really so hard?


What's changed is not the publicly available data, but the cost involved in searching it.

20 years ago would it have been worth the resources required to put a 'search agent' (a real investigator) into the social network (every pub) to recover a four figure sum of taxes owed?

People's expectations haven't yet caught up with regards to being caught for low level crimes that were routinely not enforceable in the recent past.




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