Tax collectors using social networks to track deadbeats

Tax collectors using social networks to track deadbeats

Posted on September 4th, 2009 by Glenn Giangrande

Uncle Sam is cheating!

Considering all the money that flows out of New York City’s Financial District, it should not come as a surprise that the news was first brought to light by the Wall Street Journal, but here’s the bottom line: if you just got a fat under-the-table payment at work, or if you’re crying poverty during the day while night swimming in a pool filled with dollar bills, don’t go bragging about it over the internet on your social network of choice.

It’s just another case of Big Brother watching over us, and I’m not talking about my favorite reality show on CBS. People are entitled to their personal space in life, right? So shouldn’t that apply to the internet in some capacity? Maybe it’s just me. After all, I’m the same guy who thinks that the teenaged UK girl who was fired earlier this year for sounding off via status update was done wrong.

Yes, all debts should be paid, but whatever happened to the good old days of intimidating phone calls and bill collectors knocking on the door in order to get what’s owed to their clients?