Mark Zuckerberg may have your tax return information, thanks to a deal with H&R Block, TaxSlayer, and TaxAct.
We learned this through a Senate Democrat Report released today.
Mark Zuckerberg may have your tax return information, thanks to a deal with H&R Block, TaxSlayer, and TaxAct.
We learned this through a Senate Democrat Report released today.
A new congressional report shows H&R Block, TaxSlayer and TaxAct gave tens of millions of people’s personal financial information to tech companies. Now, senators are calling for criminal charges. https://t.co/00d2lC4byd
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I bet you didn’t know that was even legal, and quite possibly it wasn’t.
I am not in the habit of singing the praises of liberal Democrats, particularly not those of Elizabeth Warren, but we must give credit where credit is due. And a lot of credit is due to the Democrats on this one. Kudos!
About 10 million people type their personal financial information into H&R Block, TaxSlayer and TaxAct websites every year to prepare their taxes, trusting the companies to keep their information safe. Instead, the companies shared that personal information with Google and Facebook, some going as far back as 2011, members of Congress wrote in a new report.
The congressional investigation, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), follows a report last year about such data-sharing with Facebook by the technology journalism website The Markup. Warren and six other lawmakers wrote to the Justice Department on Tuesday urging criminal charges against the companies for violating laws that prevent tax preparers from sharing their clients’ personal information.
For God’s sake, man, it’s bad enough that the government gets to pry into your income and expenses. The last thing we need is Big Tech getting its hands on what we make and how we spend our money.
