This sfgate.com article highlights two important privacy related issues with an online nexus. First, the use of web bugs (also called web beacons) to collect personal data on individuals using free software applications for federal tax e-filings to which they have been steered by the IRS. Second, in the continually expanding saga of what have been labeled as data scams, thefts, leaks, breaches, security snafus [i.e., ID theft], this article also expands information awareness on ZabaSearch.com, the “free people search” engine. This site provides users with access to an extensive database of personal data whose accuracy is difficult to gauge, and requesting the removal of your information from their service invokes the Internet version of Catch 22. A previous article on the site by the same author provides details on the background of the owners.