'Shocking Breach': Probe Shows Tax Prep Companies Shared Personal Data With Tech Giants

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One expert called the new revelations 'a five-alarm fire' for taxpayer privacy.

"While most websites use pixels, it is particularly reckless for online tax preparation websites to use them on webpages where tax return information is entered unless further steps are taken to ensure that the pixels do not access sensitive information," the lawmakers' 54-page report states."Yet, the tax prep companies described this as a 'ubiquitous' and 'common industry practice.

"H&R Block and TaxSlayer also revealed an extensive list of data shared via the Meta Pixel, including transmitting information on whether taxpayers had visited pages for many revealing tax situations," the report adds.

David Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University and a former consumer protection chief at the Federal Trade Commission ,on Wednesday that the revelations in the Senate report are"a five-alarm fire" for taxpayer privacy.

 

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