An issue with the 2014 version of Quickbooks 1099 creation module has led to the under-reporting of some 1099 payments (and so 1099 income on the 1099 recipient’s side).

Facebook has filed a patent for a predictive method of determining (inferring) the income of each of their users, to allow their advertisers to target you. To do this, they are mining your information – the amount of which is staggering (their words right in the patent application!) – incuding what you post in your timeline.