Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data – The Markup
themarkup.orgThe investigation was opened in response to work published last year by The Markup
Might be old news for some… TLDR: Some big online tax prep sites have tracker pixels from Meta and Google, which collect things like income, filing status, tax credits, etc.
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I see that some folks here suggest that a change in how taxes are reported is a solution to this.
For me it sounds weird. The problem is with having big tech trackers deployed on most web sites by site owners who don’t care about privacy implications. It doesn’t look like tax prep firms are profiting from user data, it’s just their negligence.
I hope that they will do a good thing and replace these invasive trackers with something better.
But meanwhile, people can use their desktop software. I’ve seen H&R block software a few years back - it was slightly buggy, but it worked. I don’t think they put Meta trackers there.