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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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[-] suckmyspez@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Me too tbh. I used to use the extension but removed it assuming it was no longer required.

I found this issue on the repo which seems to suggest there’s still a benefit to using both…

https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/851

this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023

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