{"id":568,"date":"2005-04-14T10:23:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T15:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/14\/turbotax-and-taxcut-are-watching-you\/"},"modified":"2005-04-14T10:24:59","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T15:24:59","slug":"turbotax-and-taxcut-are-watching-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/14\/turbotax-and-taxcut-are-watching-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Are TurboTax and TaxCut Watching You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2005\/04\/13\/BUG2DC78FN1.DTL\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> has an article written by David Lazarus in which the author claims that users of the online versions of Intuit&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/turbotax.com\/\">TurboTax<\/a> or H&#038;R Block&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxcut.com\/\">TaxCut<\/a> software are tracked during their filing process through the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Web_bugs\">web bugs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Both Intuit and H&#038;R Block claim any data collected is used only in quality assurance purposes, but some privacy advocates are unconvinced that either company will not be tempted to sell such data to a third-party marketing firm in the future, particularly when both use the services of DoubleClick, a company that has sparked <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doubleclick\">previous privacy concerns<\/a> to process the data coming from the hidden trackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Chronicle has an article written by David Lazarus in which the author claims that users of the online versions of Intuit&#8217;s TurboTax or H&#038;R Block&#8217;s TaxCut software are tracked during their filing process through the use of web bugs. Both Intuit and H&#038;R Block claim any data collected is used only in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/14\/turbotax-and-taxcut-are-watching-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are TurboTax and TaxCut Watching You?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}