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3 tax prep firms shared 'extraordinarily sensitive' data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say(apnews.com)

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Some congressional Democrats say three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over at least two years.

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Catasaur@lemmy.catasaur.xyz
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The USA is sounding like a cyberpunk corpo dystopia more and more every day.

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Hotdogman@lemmy.world
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RoboCop was only a movie…right?

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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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It honestly feels like that’s the end goal.

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Marxine@lemmy.ml
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Just sounding? They’ve already crossed that line some years ago IMO

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