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

Re:Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data ab... by zo1 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @01:21PM (#36712750)

I'm still not convinced how this is "bad" per se. Yet we're all here discussing this as if it's already decided that this data shouldn't be shared and I'm sitting here thinking "Wtf? Who asked me?". Ok, so the Tax firm I gave my personal info to put it on Google, okay. Will google see it? Sure. Is it on some DB on google? Sure.

Do I care? No.

We're watching the world burn right now with more pressing issues, and this whole thing seems so ridiculously academic and contrived.

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Re:Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data ab... by xp84 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @11:59PM (#36719327)

Same here, this type of outrage bait doesn’t work on me either. Some income info on me is in Intuit’s database somewhere, it hypothetically maybe being in a database at Meta does not affect me at all, other than I might get ads for more luxury goods. I don’t care, I also click “allow” instead of “Ask App Not To Track” in every iOS pop-up scare message.

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Re:Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data ab... by JKCalhoun on Friday July 14, 2023 @08:31AM (#36722950)

> We're watching the world burn right now with more pressing issues

The stampede of technology on our privacy, on our daily lives is, I think, one of those fires burning right now.

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