Facebook may have collected some of your IRS filing data
The Markup reports that several tax filing services shared private taxpayer information with Facebook. Some companies listed on the website include TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and also H&R Block and Intuit. Information shared with Meta included data such as names and email addresses, and also personal financial details, including annual income, filing status, and refund amounts. The Markup also reports instances of college scholarship amounts for dependent children and health savings account activity revealed. The data was conveyed to Facebook via Meta Pixel, a javascript snippet inserted into a webpage. The script tracks and collects usage on a webpage for targeted Facebook advertising, and works regardless of whether the user in question has any Meta accounts.
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