Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta

Re:Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data ab... by gunapologist99 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @11:53AM (#36711243)

The article states that the information was "shared" with Google and Meta via their respective pixels for ad-tracking purposes, but claims that only Meta parsed out that data and misused it.

The original cited source is https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/11/22/tax-filing-websi... and contains more details than the AP article (and was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33753058 )

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Re:Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data ab... by gruez on Thursday July 13, 2023 @12:03PM (#36711434)

>but claims that only Meta parsed out that data and misused it.

Can you quote the specific section for this claim? I skimmed the themarkup.org article and the closest thing I could find was this

>Meta wins financially too. The company says it can use the data it gleans from tools like the pixel to power its algorithms, providing it insight into the habits of users across the internet.

Which has a link to facebook's tos. That's not really indication of what they actually do, just legal ass covering.

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