Your Financial Info Goes Straight To Facebook (And Even More Data Protection News)

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Hello everyone! Aren’t you excited about all the juicy privacy breaches, leaks, and updates that happened this week worldwide? Let’s dive into it. Here’s the weekly Data Protection News.

Let’s start with the big news.

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Thanks to an independent journalistic investigation of The Markup, it turned out that some huge tax filing websites are sending US users’ financial info right to Facebook.

The data is sent through the Meta Pixel and includes not only names and email addresses but also users’ income, filing status, refund amounts, and even dependents’ college scholarship amounts. Regardless of whether the user has a Facebook or other Meta platform account, the data has been collected and transferred. How’s Facebook using the information? To power the advertising algorithms, of course. Up to 150 million people may be affected by the case. Algorithms like it.

Facebook news won’t end here.

In the UK, Meta is being sued for…