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Tax prep websites have been sending sensitive financial data to Facebook
Yahoo News ^ | November 22, 2022 | Jon Fingas

Posted on 11/22/2022 2:58:45 PM PST by tired&retired

Meta's Pixel tracking tool is causing more headaches, this time for people filing their taxes online. The Markup has discovered that large tax prep services like H&R Block, TaxAct and TaxSlayer have been sending users' sensitive contact and financial information to Facebook through the Pixel. This sometimes included income data, filing statuses and even kids' college tuition grants.

Intuit's TurboTax also uses the Pixel to send data, although that's limited to usernames and the last sign-in dates for given devices.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; tax
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To: gnarledmaw

You are 100% correct.

All they use is a pencil , paper and a calculator.


21 posted on 11/23/2022 4:59:03 PM PST by Candor7
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