HMRC snoopers want to spy on your private life under chilling Labour power grab

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This jaw-dropping piece of monumental overreach by the men in grey suits from the Revenue is just one of a growing rake of Labour state surveillance measures we should all be…

I hope you aren’t having an affair with ChatGPT. Because that would make you weird – though by no means alone – as more than one million people per week make romantic or sexual overtures to their smokin’ large language model of choice.

But that is not the weirdest or indeed most sinister ChatGPT story of the week. That would be the news that if you do happen to be having an LLM affair, brace yourself for the Inland Revenue to eavesdrop on all your AI sweet nothings. Because, in a move which would make Big Brother himself blush, if proposals in the Budget Bill (set to become law by the end of May) get the go-ahead, taxpayers and third parties, including AI platforms and software providers, could be asked to hand over their AI chatbot histories to HMRC.

This jaw-dropping piece of monumental overreach by the men in grey suits from the Revenue is just one of a growing rake of Labour state surveillance measures we should all be very, very suspicious of. As this administration lurches ever more Stalinwards, we learn today that HMRC spies – those Thinkpol from the Ministry of Money – have already started secretly taking photos of our houses, lest we commit a prop-crime.

They are ostensibly taking photos for the mansion tax. But the mansion tax doesn’t start for almost another two years and, given Labour’s propensity for U-turns when votes are at stake, there is every chance it could be scrapped – or at the very least severely modified.

Of course opponents have called the moves a “snoopers' charter”. But it’s much worse than that – we are sleepwalking to levels of sinister state surveillance previous generations would simply have not allowed.

Phones, Facebook and omnipresent CCTV have softened us up. We now supinely acquiesce to one invasion of our privacy after another, one abandonment of our liberties after another, without a murmur.

HMRC already has powers to reach directly into bank accounts and recover unpaid tax without first going to court.

But the taxman is now extending…

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