IRS Privacy Policy
This looks like an incomplete capture of the IRS privacy policy page rather than a real rewrite. The new version keeps only a short "AI-assisted content" banner, a welcome paragraph, and a paragraph about voluntary online services — then lists four headings ("IRS privacy policy overview", "Privacy compliance programs", "Privacy Act requests", "Privacy complaints") with no text under any of them. Everything that used to follow, including the promise not to sell your information, the explanation of how the IRS uses AI, the Privacy Act and disclosure notice, the site security practices, and the rules about recording meetings, is not in the new capture. Four headings with nothing beneath them is what a page looks like when its collapsible sections were never opened, so we are treating this as a snapshot problem and not as the IRS taking rights away. Nothing in the new text grants the agency any new power over your data. If the next capture still shows empty sections, this is worth a second look.
Cosmetic change: formatting, typos, or contact details.
AI-assisted content verified by the IRS
Thank you for visiting the Internal Revenue Service's website, an official United States Government System, and reviewing our privacy policy. Our privacy policy explains how we handle the personally identifiable information (PII) that you provide to us when you visit us online to browse, obtain information, or conduct a transaction. PII includes information that is personal in nature and which might be used to identify you. The IRS uses this website to provide information about IRS services and programs. This website includes specific applications which provide more services or enable us to respond to specific questions from website visitors.
We won't collect personal information about you just because you visit this Internet site. Some applications on this website provide you with the opportunity to order forms, ask questions requiring a response, sign up for electronic newsletters, participate in focus groups and customer surveys, or learn the status of filed returns or anticipated payments. Using these services is voluntary and may require that you provide additional personal information to us. Providing the requested information implies your consent for us to use this data in order to respond to your specific request.
The new capture opens with a line marking the page as AI-assisted content verified by the IRS, followed by a welcome paragraph defining personally identifiable information, and a paragraph saying the site does not collect personal information simply because you visit, but that optional services such as ordering forms or checking a refund may ask you for information and that supplying it counts as consent to use it for that request.
IRS privacy policy overview
The new capture ends with four headings that have nothing written under them. None of these four headings existed in the previous version, which used different headings such as the Privacy Act notice and taxpayer burden sections. Empty headings like these are typically collapsed sections that did not load, which is the main reason we read this as a partial snapshot rather than a deletion of the policy.
Privacy compliance programs
Privacy Act requests
Privacy complaints
ALSO IN THIS CHANGE, NOT TIED TO ONE PASSAGE
- − REMOVEDAlmost the entire policy text is missing from the new capture
The long body of the old page is gone. That included the statement that the IRS does not sell your information, the description of what it collects and why, the security and network-monitoring practices, the Privacy Act and Paperwork Reduction Act notice, the taxpayer burden estimates, and the rules for recording meetings. No replacement wording for any of these topics appears in the new version.
We do not sell the information collected at this site or any other information we collect.
- − REMOVEDParagraph explaining how the IRS uses AI is no longer present
The old page had a paragraph saying the IRS uses AI for some services, fraud detection, and compliance work, that AI does not replace human judgment on your rights or obligations, and that your information stays protected under federal tax confidentiality law. That paragraph does not appear in the new capture.
We use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate or assist with certain services, compliance activities, fraud detection, and administrative functions.
- − REMOVEDDisclosure and Privacy Act notice is no longer present
The section explaining the IRS's legal right to ask for your information, what happens if you don't provide it, and the specific situations in which your return information can be shared (Justice Department, states, Congress, child support agencies, treaty partners, and others) is missing from the new capture.
Generally, tax returns and return information are confidential, as stated in Code section 6103.
- − REMOVEDSecurity practices and meeting-recording rules are no longer present
The old page described how the IRS secures your information and monitors network traffic, and set out how recorded online and in-person meetings work, including that you can leave a meeting to avoid being recorded. None of this appears in the new capture.
The IRS might need to record a meeting you attend, with your consent.