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Meta, Google, H&R Block accused of coordinated plan to scrape taxpayer data

In Legal News, News
September 27, 2023
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Another day, another RICO class action? Courthouse News 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.

Read more at Courthouse News.