Facebook collects financial information from tax-preparation websites without user consent in violation of federal and state laws, a proposed new federal class action said.
Crystal Craig, Tiffany Bryant, and Sait Kurmangaliyev alleged that Facebook, now known as
Pixel enabled the transmission to Facebook of users’ sensitive financial and tax-return information, including names, email addresses, adjusted gross incomes, tax-filing statuses, refund amounts, dependents’ college scholarship amounts, dependents’ names, and other information, ...