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Can You Trust IRS to Keep Your Tax Data Secure?

| April 13, 2016

Monday is Tax Day. Many of us are thinking about our taxes. Are they too high or too low? What's our money being spent on? Do we have a government worth paying for? I'm not here to answer any of those questions — I'm here to give you something else to think about. In addition to sending the IRS your money, you're also sending them your data.

It's a lot of highly personal financial data, so it's sensitive and important information.

Is that data secure?

Continue reading: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/opinions/is-data-you-send-to-irs-secure-opinion-schneier/index.html

For more information on this publication: Belfer Communications Office
For Academic Citation: Schneier, Bruce.“Can You Trust IRS to Keep Your Tax Data Secure?.” CNN, April 13, 2016.

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