Meta Pixel

H&R Block was cited as one of the major digital tax filing services employing Meta Pixel, which was sending sensitive financial info over to Meta.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)The ravenous data machine never stops looking for ways to feed, but it seems for some time now the beast has been snacking on users’ financial data taken directly from their tax filings. After the machine’s had its fill on users income data, filing status, dependents’ names, refund amount, and more, it’s been depositing its data droppings…

Image Source : PIXABAY Instagram Instagram, a Meta-owned photo-sharing platform is capable of tracking its users' actions, text choices and even text input, like passwords and other confidential credit card information, if they visit a link inside the app, states the new report. The analysis conducted by Felix Krause found that both Instagram and Facebook on iOS use their own in-app browser rather than the one offered by Apple for third-party…

About 33 of the top 100 hospitals in the US are sending sensitive patient data to Facebook, now known as Meta, via a tracking tool installed on their websites, according to a media report.Whenever a person schedules a doctor's appointment, the tracker called the Meta Pixel sends Facebook data -- which includes details of medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor's appointments, The Markup reported. Meta Pixel was also installed inside the password-protected patient portals of seven health systems. Collectively, 33…