MarvinFreemanJul 12, 2023

3 tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2023/07/12/3-tax-prep-firms-shared-extraordinarily-sensitive-data-about-taxpayers-with-meta-lawmakers-say/

"The program collected information on taxpayers’ filing status, income, refund amounts, names of dependents, approximate federal tax owed, which buttons were clicked on the tax preparers’ websites and the names of text entry forms that the taxpayer navigated, the report states."

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3 tax prep firms shared 'extraordinarily sensitive' data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say

In exchange, Meta was able to access the data to write targeted algorithms for its own users. Read more at Boston.com.

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Show threadMatthew Clover
@MarvinFreeman Wow. Thank you for sharing. Tax prep companies should only be sharing this info with state and federal entities. I really wish the US would get its act together and craft some privacy laws that make something like this too difficult to attempt.
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