‘Big Tax Prep’ Shared Sensitive Data with Meta, Google, Congress Says
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Tax companies' practices of sharing 'pixels' with Meta revealed a wide range of sensitive data including taxpayers’ names, filing status, and addresses.

Wonderful, but not surprising.

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For a country that seem so bullish on FREEDOM, they’re oh so heavily surveilled. Possibly among the most surveilled citizens in the world, since we don’t really know to what extent both their own government and their big corporations spy on them, but we always keep discovering more and more.

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