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Inside: Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/22/free-file-now/
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Today (Nov 22), I'm hosting a California Book Club event with Kim Stanley Robinson where we'll be discussing his 1998 novel "The Gold Coast":
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My publisher Tor Books and Goodreads are having a drawing for a giveaway of advance hardcopies of my next novel, "Red Team Blues," a Silicon Valley forensic accounting thriller about a cryptocurrency heist. If you're in the US or Canada, enter here to win a copy:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/353941-red-team-blues
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Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook: And they didn't even know they were doing it.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109388476395017478
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Attached: 1 image If you were unfortunate enough to e-file your US #tax using HR Block, Taxact or Taxslayer, your most sensitive financial information was nonconsenually shared with Facebook, where it was added to the involuntary dossier the company maintains billions of people, including people who don't have Facebook accounts. 1/
Will Cox@pluralistic well, that explains why I’ve stopped getting advertisements for private jets.