Re:Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data ab...
by jeffbee on Thursday July 13, 2023 @12:26PM
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I doubt it is anything anywhere near that fancy. Look at the primary source of this complaint, which is available in GitHub. One of the sites was putting sensitive data, such as income amounts, in the page title. The Facebook analytics thing sends the page title to Facebook. Google Analytics also takes the page title. You can easily see how any old targeting engine, machine inference or otherwise, would take the titles of visited pages as a signal.
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