Lawsuit Filed Against TaxAct Claims the Company Shares Sensitive Information With Facebook, Google

Plaintiff Matthew Hartz has filed a class action lawsuit against TaxAct, Inc., claiming the company embedded code to share personal data from tax returns with both Google and Facebook.

The company has transmitted private and sensitive private information to both Facebook and Google, it stated in a recent Congressional Report, according to the TaxAct Facebook class action.

The data included the first names of dependents in a modified form, along with “full names, email, country, state, city, zip codes, phone numbers, gender, date of birth, filing status, adjusted gross income (AGI), approximate refund amount, approximate federal tax owed, web browser used, year of the return, ‘website referral, if any, and buttons that were clicked and names of text-entry forms that the taxpayer navigated to (which could indicate, for example, whether taxpayers were eligible for certain deductions or exemptions),’ “ according to the TaxAct Google class action.

Read the source article at Top Class Actions