FTC Warns Tax Prep Companies Against Invasive #Online #Tracking
From @themarkup
Last year The Markup revealed that tax prep companies sent sensitive personal information/tax related info/financial info to #Facebook without clear disclosure or expressed consent. This was primarily happening because of the #Meta Pixel, which collects data on websites that implement it - regardless if you have a Facebook/Meta company account.
Afterall, who files taxes and expects that information get straight to Facebook/Meta when using a tax prep software?
I think the time is coming to an end for these big tech companies, as more people learn computer science, and as part of that critical thinking, they start to question what facebook are doing, and the tide is slowly turning, the fact the FTC are on the side of end users is a good thing.
