When Privacy Is Not Private | Considerations On The Tax Filing Services Sharing Personal Data Using The Meta Pixel Advertising Technology | CyberSecurity, Society, And Technology Perspectives With Sean Martin And Marco Ciappelli

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Sean Martin
Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast [@RedefiningCyber]
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Marco Ciappelli
Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society Podcast
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On Mastodon | https://infosec.exchange/@Marcociappelli
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Episode Notes

Major name-brand tax filing services have been quietly transmitting sensitive financial information to Facebook/Meta when Americans file their taxes online. When asked about this, most (all?) of them made statements, paraphrased, along the lines of "we didn't know it was doing that" and "we take our clients privacy seriously so we are taking the pixel down" — is this what we've come to?

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Resources

The Verge | Tax filing websites have been sending users’ financial information to Facebook: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/22/23471842/facebook-hr-block-taxact-taxslayer-info-sharing

TheMarkUp.org | Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users’ Financial Information to Facebook: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/11/22/tax-filing-websites-have-been-sending-users-financial-information-to-facebook

ArsTechnica | Major tax-filing websites secretly share income data with Meta: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/major-tax-filing-websites-secretly-share-income-data-with-meta/

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