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

296 点作者 superhumanuser将近 2 年前

14 条评论

macintux将近 2 年前
Effectively a dup. Discussion here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36701706">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36701706</a>
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jeffbee将近 2 年前
The politician&#x27;s use of &quot;shared&quot; to describe this is misleading in a way that HN headline-only readers are going to jump all over. What these sites were doing was abusing Google Analytics to store private user data in custom parameters. That is, in one example, if a user of a tax prep site said that they had 1 dependent, the site would set a parameter like &quot;cd17:1&quot; in their Analytics request. I don&#x27;t really see how that amounts to Google&#x27;s problem.<p>If a company uses or abuses software platforms to improperly store private user data, that is their error and not the fault of the platform. I assume you would not blame Google if Intuit put everyone&#x27;s AGI in a Google Sheet.
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srameshc将近 2 年前
This is another reason why it should be the government&#x27;s obligation to provide websites to prepare and file taxes. Tax softwares should work to solve complex scenarios or whatever the need be for the specialized requirement only via API. And tax softwares should be approved after an audit by the government.
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NickC25将近 2 年前
As much as I hate Meta, Google, etc... they shouldn&#x27;t be in the crosshairs here.<p>It&#x27;s the tax-prep companies like Intuit that are effectively rent-seeking leeches that serve little purpose outside of &quot;lobbying&quot; politicians to keep the tax code intentionally obfuscated and full of loopholes.
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emodendroket将近 2 年前
&gt; In a letter to the heads of the IRS, the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and the IRS watchdog, seven lawmakers say their findings “reveal a shocking breach of taxpayer privacy by tax prep companies and by Big Tech firms.”<p>&gt; Their report said highly personal and financial information about sources of taxpayers’ income, tax deductions and exemptions was made accessible to Meta as taxpayers used the tax software to prepare their taxes.<p>&gt; That data came to Meta through its Pixel code, which the tax firms installed on their websites to gather information on how to improve their own marketing campaigns. In exchange, Meta was able to access the data to write targeted algorithms for its own users.<p>It is hard to see what Meta has done wrong here.
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FredPret将近 2 年前
I used tax prep software once or twice. Each time it cost about CAD 20 - 30.<p>Then I found an accountant that&#x27;ll do it for CAD 50-100 (for a simple filing).<p>My time spent filing tax went from 30-60 minutes to about 1 minute. The amount of psychological pain from reading endless legalese, figuring out if I had moved more than x km for work, and many other inane questions, dropped from a lot to almost zero.<p>And the money I got back skyrocketed because this person actually knows all the legalese. Best investment ever!
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mensetmanusman将近 2 年前
AI powered analytics is going to know so much about us that we don&#x27;t have a chance unless we make the cost of analysis 100-1000x more expensive through obfuscation (which costs latency unfortunately).<p>The internet is all connected; if some companies in certain countries are prevented from analyzing, others will pick up the slack.
mixmastamyk将近 2 年前
The IRS is probably doing this as well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36361915">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36361915</a><p>It&#x27;s possible noscript saved me, but I&#x27;m not 100% sure. Sometimes the page has a bug where it won&#x27;t work without the external JS loaded, and you are forced to load it. My bank recently added a login requirement for some external JS from a site called &quot;launch darkly&quot;, which I know very little about.<p>Can we sue these entities to make them stop this shit? Should be illegal to load external JS on sensitive sites.
29athrowaway将近 2 年前
They should be forced to hard delete the data and all its copies. Not anonymize it or soft delete it. Hard delete it as in zeroing all of it and all data derived from it.<p>Then report on how the data was shared and force each entity receiving the data to delete it as well.
NoZebra120vClip将近 2 年前
Correct me if I am wrong, but there is a significant lacuna in this article, namely: which years? I may be affected by this, so I read the article to confirm whether I am affected based on the years, but they didn&#x27;t even put in that information.
kernal将近 2 年前
If you&#x27;re not paying for your online tax service your personal data will cover the charge.
Teever将近 2 年前
Who did this? Specifically, who are the individuals involved in doing this? It isn&#x27;t enough to name the corporations, I want the names and personal information of everyone who did this.<p>Start doing that, and you start solving this problem.
romusha将近 2 年前
Eh they will be fine like any other before them
goodenforce将近 2 年前
If confidential information like income was shared, both the tax firms and Meta ought to be closed, on the spot.