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More bad news for tax evaders in the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Britain and Canada. Your governments “have deployed a stealthy web-spider called “Xenon” that looks for people earning unreported online income, and subsequently busts them as tax-cheats,” say BoingBoing.
Once the web pages are screen-scraped, Xenon’s Identity Information Extraction Module interfaces with national databases containing information like street and city names. It uses that data to automatically identify mailing addresses and other identity information present on the websites it has crawled, which it puts into a database that can be matched in bulk with national tax records.
Tax Takers Send in the Spiders Via: BoingBoing
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