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Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED.

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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

One change they suggested was to limit the audits performed each year to one. A single person whose name was drawn at random gets an intensive Mega-Audit™

[–] TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Weight the chance of being drawn by wealth and give Mega-Fines to offenders and I'd be down for it

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

They probably will, but in ascending order.

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