A tipster working for the IRS claims on his blog that the IRS's archiving has been outsourced to the lowest bidder, an unnamed company in Florida. If true, it means that this company will control the most intimate details of the finances of virtually every American.
"Sections of each agency "not related to the inner workings of the government" are being made to "bid" for the work they had done previously. Im part of the file retention unit (basically, the archives) of the IRS, and our section is one that has to bid.
"Yesterday], we lost that bid, to a company in florida. Which means that our government will no longer be controlling your tax documents that are archival in nature (and we also store documents for this tax year) it will be in the hands of the lowest bidder."
This is also happening to other governmental agencies, not just the IRS. Corporations aren't controlling the "inner workings" of each agency, but everything ELSE is being sliced up and delivered.
(via Consumerist)
