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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[-] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 31 points 11 months ago

The three tax prep firms named are H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer.

[-] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

I'm not surprised at all, income data is really useful when doing targeted advertising. This kind of sale should be illegal of course, because our tax data should be sensitive in the same legal or medical data is, but I don't think Meta's going to see any consequences for this.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yet another way that the privatization of tax preparation hurts us.

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