[commoner]

In addition to TurboTax, Intuit owns Mint.com, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and other services. All of these services are covered under Intuit's global privacy policy, which states that Intuit uses personal information in multiple privacy-violating ways:

> For joint features, sales, promotions and events. We may share your information with third-parties companies who are jointly providing features, sales initiatives, promotions or events with us.

> With financial services providers. We may share personal Information with collection agencies, credit bureaus and loan service providers, and payment card association members. We may also share your personal information with other companies, lawyers, credit bureaus, agents, government agencies, and card associations in connection with issues related to fraud, credit, defaults, or debt collection.

> We may share your information with our affiliates and subsidiaries for everyday business purposes as described in this Statement, including for marketing purposes.

https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/

Considering that Mint.com and Credit Karma are free of charge, it's obvious that Intuit is using personal information harvested from these services to generate revenue in the ways described. TurboTax and QuickBooks are mainly paid products, but have the same privacy policy.

[throwaway413]

Sure, I can accept that, seeing those are non-tax related products but personal finance related, and free as you mentioned.

I should have communicated more clearly, I was specifically regarding personal finance data collected via TurboTax during the tax process.