TurboTax and TaxCut install web bugs on your system
April 15, 2005 2:08 AM
From Slashdot:
"Apparently Intuit thinks it's okay to share information about taxes with third parties. According to this article, Intuit is using a third party tracking technology on all tax forms submitted to the IRS. "We could capture your name, your Social Security number or any other information that you willingly pass to a Web site," acknowledged Matt Belkin, who serves as vice president of best practices for Utah marketing giant Omniture, which tracks the online activities of people using Intuit's TurboTax. The IRS disavows any knowledge of this, saying "The IRS does not take a position on Web tracking tools." Makes you wonder where your tax information is going..."
Is this okay?
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