A recent report by the Electronic Privacy Information Center has some troubling information about personal data collection methods and oversight at the Department Of Treasury/Internal Revenue Service. The most troubling was the recent news that the IRS (and from this report it seems they control the ability of independent tax preparers also) would start selling taxpayer data to other companies. Maybe generalized reports might not be a bad thing, but you just know that they would end up selling detailed individual reports with Social Security numbers because no one would notice or care to take them off.