Posted on 07/12/2023 7:04:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
Let's check in on the depths of evil and totalitarian privacy violations being carried out by everybody's favorite social media mogul, shall we?
Oh, looks like Zuck is buying all your tax return info so he can run even more manipulative and targeted ads to Facebook and Instagram users.
A new report brought by Senate Democrats shows that Meta purchased personal financial information gathered from individuals' tax returns from three MAJOR tax prep software companies.
If you got your taxes done with H&R Block, TaxAct, or TaxSlayer, there's a VERY good chance that Mark Zuckerberg now owns the info you input into your tax returns.
Their report said highly personal and financial information about sources of taxpayers' income, tax deductions and exemptions was made accessible to Meta as taxpayers used the tax software to prepare their taxes.
That data came to Meta through its Pixel code, which the tax firms installed on their websites to gather information on how to improve their own marketing campaigns. In exchange, Meta was able to access the data to write targeted algorithms for its own users.
H&R Block, Tax Slayer, and Tax Act traded your private financial info to Zuckerberg so that they could improve their quality of advertising online.
Meta then used your personal info to write advertising algorithms even more directly targeted to you.
The details they gathered and sold are insane!
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.
But I'm sure everyone clicked "I Agree" when they were asked, even though no one actually reads the fine print. But I guess it goes to show what they might be hiding in it.
Bernie Sanders, Pocahontas Warren, Da Nang Dick Blumenthal, Sheldon "White Club" Whitehouse, and several other big-name Democrats are the ones who brought this story to light.
I hope these tax companies go broke.
Stop using corporations and stick with your next door neighbour, that you can punch out if he tries any crap.
I strongly suspect that Big Tech has a hook into tax preparation software too. For me, as long as the IRS accepts snail mail, that is what they’re getting.
Not mine, if those are the only three companies that did so.
Right now, there is a class action lawsuit against Meta’s Pixel on a local health provider’s website for ding the same exact thing. Its in the proposed settlement stage currently.
Ad Blockers
Great. Like I need this crap right now.
THIS MUST STOP
When I was doing books for a number of small businesses-—I NEVER even set up as connected to the internet.
NO ONE could hack my systems & get any info.
Did that from 1991 to 2022.
“If you got your taxes done with H&R Block, TaxAct, or TaxSlayer,”
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then you probably checked a box that allows them to sell your information. And they probably sold it to a lot more than Meta.
Not a fan of MZ at all, but the info above has the spidey sense tingling mightily. Those are some of the most far Left senators attacking one of their own (MZ, not the tax prep companies).
GREAT tag line!
The taxprep company CEOs AND zucky belong in jail.
Zuck the cuck better stay in Hawaii.
We use Tax Act software, do the taxes on our computer, print the forms and use snail mail.
Nothing is done at some companies website. Anyone that shares their personal information such as income and deductions over the internet is as big of a fool that stores personal info on a cloud somewhere.
Yep…. Definitely use an ad blocker at a minimum and a VPN compliments the ad blocker nicely.
No possible way anyone can steal my tax return information.
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