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Meta Sued for Collecting Financial Information Through Tax Filing Websites
A proposed class action was filed on Dec. 1
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Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users’ Financial Information to Facebook
The Markup found services including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block sending sensitive data
LevelUp
How The Markup Tracks Impact—and How Your Newsroom Can Too
We’re releasing an Airtable template that allows any newsroom or organization to adopt and build upon our impact-tracking process
The Breakdown
We Joined Mastodon. Here’s What We Learned About Privacy and Security
As Elon Musk sends Twitter into chaos, we’re sharing what we picked up about Mastodon as we selected a server
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