How tech companies got access to our #tax data. #TaxAct, #TaxSlayer, and #HRblock. It found that the sites were sending data to #Meta through #MetaPixel, a commonly used piece of computer code often embedded in #websites to track users https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/17/1076365/how-tech-companies-access-tax-data/

In UK la Metropolitan Police ha utilizzato lo strumento di tracciamento #metapixel in una pagina web di segnalazione di casi di violenza sessuale

Quindi i dati dei segnalanti sono stati condivisi con #facebook

È chiaro che è stata una svista di progettazione, ma è anche chiaro che gli strumenti di sorveglianza digitale sono così pervasivi che vengono usati con “noncuranza”, senza un assessment accurato

"NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent"

Please let this be a wakeup call that leads folk to use privacy-respecting web browsers and tools that block tracking technologies such as #Facebook's #MetaPixel. #Firefox with #uBlock, for example. Let's take responsibility for ourselves, and not trust the institutions.

#DataSecurity #WebTracking #DataProtection

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/nhs-data-breach-trusts-shared-patient-details-with-facebook-meta-without-consent?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Must be something going on with #Metapixel tonight because photo uploads are taking FOREVER, and some are not even finishing 🙁

Really looking forward to the Pixelfed app arriving at some point

@themarkup @tfeathers @simon
@anildash

Now they need to look into Christ Hospital and their vast network of hospitals and clinics for using Meta pixels in their search, who secretly deployed #MetaPixel to track visitor activity & collect patient information.

Patients are encouraged to use its hospital search to match ailments w doctors & treatments, drugs, etc. Meta collects, then uses data to serve #Facebook & #Instagram ads

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-christ-hospital-website-sends-patient-information-to-meta-other-third-parties

Lawsuit pdf: https://www.scribd.com/document/622141797/Doe-v-Christ-Health-Lawsuit#

@nedhamson

Now they need to go after Chist Hospital, serving #Cincinnati & its suburbs with offices & clinics throughout Southwestern #Ohio, who secretly deployed #MetaPixel to track visitor activity & collect patient information to disseminate the data to #Meta & other third-party companies for targeted ads.

Patients are encouraged to use its hospital search to match ailments w doctors & treatments, Meta collects, then uses data to serve #Facebook & #Instagram ads
🔗 https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-christ-hospital-website-sends-patient-information-to-meta-other-third-parties

Lawsuit: Christ #Hospital, serving #Cincinnati & its suburbs with offices & clinics throughout Southwestern #Ohio, secretly deployed #MetaPixel to track visitor activity & collect patient information to disseminate the data to #Meta & other third-party companies for targeted advertisements

Patients are encouraged to use its hospital search to match ailments w doctors & treatments, Meta collects, then uses data to serve #Facebook & #Instgram ads #Hipaa #MedMastodon

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-christ-hospital-website-sends-patient-information-to-meta-other-third-parties

Anyone here on #MetaPixel or another #pixelfed Instance?

Just got on #pixelfed on the #Metapixel instance. Find me there (at)thegardendude!

#Pixel
#MetaPixel
#PixelMorphosis

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/
#Taxes #IRS #HRBlock #TaxAct #TaxSlayer #privacy #MetaPixel

TIL #SurvelianceCapitolism is worse than i imagined. I feel naive that this [1] surprised me, but i had to read [2] to grok the breadth of #MetaPixel.

[1]C. Lecher, “Tax filing websites have been sending users’ financial information to Facebook,” The Verge, Nov. 22, 2022. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/22/23471842/facebook-hr-block-taxact-taxslayer-info-sharing.

[2]S. Mattu, A. Waller, S. Fondrie-Teitler, and M. Gorelick, “How We Built a Meta Pixel Inspector – The Markup.” https://themarkup.org/show-your-work/2022/04/28/how-we-built-a-meta-pixel-inspector.

Major tax-filing websites secretly share income data with Meta - Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer / Staff | Getty Images News)

Her... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1899620 #internalrevenueservice #googleanalytics #metapixel #taxpayer #policy #google #meta

🚨:facebook: Tax Filing Websites, incl H&R Block, TaxAct, & TaxSlayer, Have Been Sending Users' Financial Information To #FaceBook & #InstaGram via #MetaPIXEL, including data on users' income, filing status, refund amounts, & dependents' college scholarship amounts, to power its advertising algorithms and is gathered regardless of whether the person using the tax filing service has an account on Facebook or other platforms operated by its owner Meta

#META #IRS #Privacy
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/22/11/22/1328257/tax-filing-websites-have-been-sending-users-financial-information-to-facebook