"More than $1.5 billion has been spent to settle claims of police misconduct involving thousands of officers repeatedly accused of wrongdoing. Taxpayers are often in the dark."

"The IRS directed 7 million Americans to the facial recognition vendor [ID.me](http://ID.me) before abandoning plans to make the service mandatory this week, raising new worries about the security of records already submitted to the company."

"The Internal Revenue Service has abandoned its plan to require Americans submit to a facial recognition check through a private company to access their online tax accounts following a firestorm of criticism from privacy advocates and _...Read More_

"Taxpayers should be wary of the U.S. government for pushing [ID.me](http://ID.me) ’s face-based biometric technology on them."

"Millions of Americans will soon have to scan their faces to access their Internal Revenue Service tax accounts, one of the government’s biggest expansions yet of facial recognition software into people’s everyday lives."

Treasury Department officials on Monday said that the Internal Revenue Service will face “enormous challenges” during this year’s tax filing season, warning of delays to refunds and other taxpayer services.

Not included in last week’s draft was a provision that would have directly affected the ability of billionaires to manipulate their incomes. A number of the billionaires who received stimulus checks were able to report negative incomes to _...Read More_

>"How the myth of the overburdened white taxpayer was made."