[pixl97]

> There was no sale, meta likely didn't even know they had this information.

This doesn't matter. If I did the same with your medical records HIPAA wouldn't give two shits. I improperly secured data, end of story. Even then you're depending on Meta telling us the truth (Of course I didn't look at that data, signed Mark). And even then you're depending on that data remaining secure and not getting piped off somewhere else.

[slashdev]

Meta is not the one at fault here. This is like blaming the garbage collector for you throwing out classified documents. Maybe they looked, maybe they didn't. But it's on you, not them. I mean it is on them too if they took advantage of it, but it's not obvious that's what happened here. It looks like gross negligence on the part of these tax web applications at minimum.

[adeelk93]

Not complying with the tax prep company’s requests is a bit suspect - we’ll see what happens, but it wouldn’t be impossible that Meta knew they had sensitive data and were taking advantage of it.

[throw10920]

Completely false. It absolutely matters a ton. I can block Facebook analytics with client-side tools. I can't do anything about my tax preparer directly sending my tax data to Facebook, and that's a much larger problem.