SCOOP: An IRS proposal raises privacy concerns over a third-party contractor retaining taxpayer biometric data for multiple years to aid fraud investigations.
Danny Nguyen
@dannyn516
Reporter @politico covering the IRS; Signal: dannyn516.70. Former @washingtonpost, @baltimorebanner reporter. @vanderbiltu grad
Joined April 2016
- IRS CEO Frank Bisignano will testify before the Senate Finance Committee on Tax Day, the panel announces April 15 at 10 am Bisignano appeared at W&M last month. Along with leading IRS, he’s also SSA commissioner
- Frank Bisignano says transforming the IRS as a part time job. Six months into his tenure at IRS, staff say Bisignano, also the Social Security Administration commissioner, has taken credit for Biden-era work, sown discord and become a Trump enforcer.
- Scoop: Trump’s breakup with Anthropic foiled the IRS’s plan to collect owed taxes using Claude AI. IRS was also planning to use Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding tool, to update legacy code that ran some of the agency’s tech to Java.
- BREAKING: A federal judge on Friday barred the IRS from sharing tax return information that immigration officials aimed to use to deport undocumented immigrants. More @politico
