Why you may not want to put too much information on your MySpace page....
Submitted by Linda Coleman on Fri, 2009-08-28 08:10.
Is 'Friending' in Your Future? Better Pay Your Taxes First
(WSJ) - State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites, from relocation announcements to professional profiles to financial boasts.In Minnesota, authorities were able to levy back taxes on the wages of a long-sought tax evader after he announced on MySpace that he would be returning to his home town to work as a real-estate broker and gave his employer's name.
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Would you like a taxman eyeing your personal space??
For the time being, networking sites could seem to be a good place to nab on the tax defaulters. As the time passes people will get wise and know what NOT to talk on such sites.
The idea of government officials trying to dig in information on networking sites doesn’t appeal to me. It is as good as getting your account exposed to a good willed hacker. I did start a small movement against it with my iPhone. It did create some awareness about how your social media information can be used against you. Yet most of the talks on such sites could be sheer eye wash.... example- a company boasting to be bigger than it actually is.
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I used to put my details on like emails and then I used to get loads of spammy emails. I can only think of FB where they could have got my email address from really.
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so how do they figure out who the usernames belong too. Do they force the site owners to hand over the data?
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