#379 My Data is Safe - NOT

For over a century, the government has been collecting sensitive personal and financial data on people in order to collect an income tax. And for over a century, the government has been assuring people that their sensitive data will be held in the strictest confidence. The law says it’s a felony to disclose a taxpayer’s confidential data without permission. Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped people’s data from being hacked, leaked or otherwise disclosed to people who have no right to have it.

This week, the FAIRtax Guys discuss a particularly egregious and disturbing breach of taxpayer confidentiality. Several tax preparation companies have been caught red handed sharing taxpayers’ data with Big Tech.