Rebecca Williams (@rebeccawilliams.info)

The IRS’s Verification System for Sharing Taxpayer Data With ICE Would Have Accepted ‘Don’t Care 12345’ as a Valid Address We're a couple weeks late to this one, but it deserves more attention than it received. As the Washington Post first reported, a federal judge has found that the IRS violated federal law 42,695 times when it handed over confidential taxpayer addresses to ICE last summer. But the raw number, staggering as it is, undersells how absurd this whole thing was. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/13/the-irss-verification-system-for-sharing-taxpayer-data-with-ice-would-have-accepted-dont-care-12345-as-a-valid-address/