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Members of Congress Call for IRS to Investigate Tax Companies Sharing Data with Facebook
The Markup revealed the companies’ practices last year
Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech.
Colin Lecher is an enterprise reporter based in New York with a focus on children and families. He’s passionate about the ways governments and businesses use technology to make crucial decisions, and the ways those decisions sometimes fall short.
Before joining The Markup, he was a senior reporter with The Verge. There, he reported on issues like automated cuts to healthcare, access to phone services in prisons, and the online gun market.
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The Markup revealed the companies’ practices last year
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Letters to the companies, signed by Warren and others, cite a recent Markup investigation
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A proposed class action was filed on Dec. 1
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The Markup found services including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block sending sensitive data
The Breakdown
But will they be effective or reinforce bias-based practices?
Citizen Browser
Facebook pledged to remove race, health conditions, and political affiliation from ad-targeting options, but The Markup found advertisers can still easily target the same people
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Two Republican lawmakers said the department “has failed to protect the privacy of individuals seeking to further their education”
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The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook
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Facebook ads have popped up to advertise nonexistent Amazon, Tesla, and even Facebook cryptocurrencies
Machine Learning
But some experts say such “honeypots” are educational entrapment
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