The tax preparation companies that contemptuously broke the law by "sharing" people's private information with Google and Facebook should be shut down. And every dollar of profit they made should be sent to the taxpayers whose privacy they shredded.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/meta-wont-say-what-happened-to-taxpayer-data-it-may-have-illegally-collected/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned
When I say "should" I am of course recognizing that in America there is no accountability whatever for companies that do these crimes.
Ask your member of Congress why they don't care.
Dan Gillmor /
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