You can just RTFA, it’s literally in the first three sentences:
Filing a proposed class-action suit in California, Katherine Wilson has accused Google of using Google Analytics and DoubleClick trackers on the California DMV site to unlawfully obtain information about her personal disability without her consent.
This, Wilson argued, violated the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA), as well as the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and impacted perhaps millions of drivers who had no way of knowing Google was collecting sensitive information shared only for DMV purposes.
You don’t think Google is tracking you when you’re filing your taxes online, do you?
I’m going to assume TurboTax is an American thing, and that’s insane that you’re willingly using something that you think is selling your income, taxable earnings, and government information to advertisers.
That is NOT a reasonable expectation for most of the world that Google operates in, including California with it’s data protection laws, which once again is what this article is talking about.
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Uhh, ‘secretly’? Google tracks everybody, what’s the secret?
You can just RTFA, it’s literally in the first three sentences:
You don’t think Google is tracking you when you’re filing your taxes online, do you?
I usually think TurboTax is tracking me and selling my data to Google and others.
Why not both?
I’m going to assume TurboTax is an American thing, and that’s insane that you’re willingly using something that you think is selling your income, taxable earnings, and government information to advertisers.
That is NOT a reasonable expectation for most of the world that Google operates in, including California with it’s data protection laws, which once again is what this article is talking about.