Plus, the IRS is under investigation and Tesla says goodbye to reporters forever
Cybersecurity researchers in U.K. compared the data collected from 2,664 teens with current IT freelancer rates and calculated that households containing a tech-savvy teenager saved an average of about $5,300 a year in troubleshooting, tech support, and digital labor costs.
Interviewing teens on the nature and length of any and all tech tasks they’ve done for their parents over the last 12 months, the researchers learned that parents largely needed help with social media, email problems, and video editing more than anything else. Other tasks included copywriting, data entry, graphic design, computer security, document generation, and online selling. The teens reported that much of the needed advice concerned the navigation of Zoom or Skype video calls. More than 70% surveyed said their parents chose to ask them for help instead of calling their company’s IT agent. Read more of this story on PCMag.
IRS under investigation for illegally tracking Americans
The Criminal Investigations unit of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is under fire for not securing warrants before purchasing and using location data harvested by mobile apps to track and identify criminal suspects. In a letter to the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren demanded a formal investigation into the warrantless tracking. Citing the action as a breach of the Fourth Amendment, the senators write “The IRS is not above the law and the agency’s lawyers should never provide IRS-CI investiga ..
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