H&R Block, Meta, and Google Slapped With RICO Suit, Allegedly Schemed to Scrape Taxpayer Data

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[–]Myocarditis-Man[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Google and Facebook...

Their goal is to know more about you than you know about yourself. I'd be surprised if they don't know the length, weight, and overall volume of the shit that I took this afternoon.

EDIT: As for how that would be implemented, they could have software running in my phone that analyzes the plop sounds while I'm on the can to determine the above factors of my stool. Has somebody patented that idea yet?

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They could also enter a data sharing agreement with a toilet manufacturer in which they add a sensor measuring the deformation of the toilet after taking a dump as well as a weight sensor. This in turn would make the toilet cheaper.

I think it's probably possible to measure such things from space with a military satellite, even though tracking your stool wouldn't be one of its intended applications.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Shadenfreude. Fuck them very much.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Here is the real source: https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Attacks%20on%20Tax%20Privacy_Final.pdf. Ironically, it's not even a searchable PDF (what a fucking assholes(!)).

Sounds to me like H&R Block has a problem, not Google/Meta. However, if there was an actual business relationship where money was exchanged from Google/Meta to H&R Block, then they are all fucked.

If Google/Meta actually looked at the data, they are also fucked.

If Google/Meta does in fact have columns like "tax_bracket" in their systems, they are so fucked.

I think the regulations for such systems are completely behind the times globally. I think the reason for that is that the regulators are comparatively complete idiots.