Natalie Hanson reports:
Taxpayers slapped Meta, Google and H&R Block with a sprawling RICO class action Wednesday, claiming that a “shocking breach” coordinated by the companies resulted in scraping taxpayers’ private information for profit.
In a 49-page complaint, the plaintiffs say the international firm H&R Block used customers’ private income and financial records to help train Google and Meta’s algorithms and create targeted ads.
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