‘Reckless’ Tax Prep Data Sharing Demands Probe, Democrats Say

Democratic lawmakers led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on federal officials to investigate whether tax prep companies like H&R Block Inc. and tech giants Meta and Google broke the law when they shared sensitive information millions of taxpayers entered into their websites.

Democrats’ calls coincided with the release of a report from Warren and the other lawmakers alleging TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block were “reckless” about data sharing practices by including website code that silently transmitted data to tech giants Meta Platforms Inc. and Google. The practices might have violated taxpayer rights as well as privacy laws, ...