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Tax preparers that shared private data with Meta, Google could be fined billions (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/427196

Alternative title: Meta won’t say what happened to taxpayer data it may have illegally collected

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[–] Someonedifferent 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where’s my cut? These banks and companies rip us off and then the government gets the money.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Pretty cool little system they have, eh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

To then use to subsidize banks and companies

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Could be” is doing a really heavy lifting there.

Anyone here remembers Experian data breach and how Experian ended up getting kiss (not even a slap) on the wrist? Pepperidge farm remembers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

i got free identity monitoring services from experian! for one year. for exposing my PII forever. guess we're all even now, back to monitoring my finances and determining my credit future.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good. And finish making the IRS site and let's end their little charade.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The big guys keep interfering with lawsuits and disputes over contracts. They'll probably delay the thing by a decade.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And yet they won't be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

200 million on politician hands, 100 millions in fines, how about it?

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