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3 tax prep firms shared 'extraordinarily sensitive' data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say (apnews.com)

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Some congressional Democrats say three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over at least two years.

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[–] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some states do have at least something, Virginia and California that I know of. We aren't Europeans though to gdpr doesn't apply to us, we just get tangential benefits from companies who don't want to have two ways of doing things depending upon if you're in Europe or not. If all those websites that added opt in cookie boxes to their websites and whatnot wanted to strip all that out and serve special pages to Europeans they could.

[–] grahamsz@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Except H&R Block have offices in the EU and they, knowingly, serve EU citizens living in the US (and likely EU citizens living in Europe).