Tracking Your Taxes

CTealL writes "Apparently Intuit thinks it's okay to share information about taxes with third paries. According to this article, Intuit is using a third party tracking technology on all tax forms submitted to the IRS. "We could capture your name, your Social Security number or any other information that you willingly pass to a Web site," acknowledged Matt Belkin, who serves as vice president of best practices for Utah marketing giant Omniture, which tracks the online activities of people using Intuit's TurboTax. The IRS disavows any knowledge of this, saying "The IRS does not take a position on Web tracking tools." Makes you wonder where your tax information is going..."

Comments

The moral of the story:

[Future Man 3000]

Paper has nothing on electronics for leaving a trail.

Re:The moral of the story:

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the real story is don't be a fucking pussy and use software to do something as simple as taxes.

Re:The moral of the story:

[barryman_5000]

No wait I got a better response . . . yeah and our blind luck . . . uh . . . is only passed by our uh . . . Ok, our stupidity exceeds all.

Re:Legitimate

[Anonymous Coward]

That depends...how much money do you got to spend?

Where your tax information is going

[$upernick]

The real question lately is, where isn't your tax information going?

Re:Try to hack this...

[John Seminal]

It's slower than an e-file, but far more anonymous, providing you don't put a return address on the envelope.

And for complete anonymity, take your thumb, lick it, and rub over your social security numbers til you can't read it any more. Hey, that is what general Shwarzkaupf did with his map of vietnam. Cambodia? Cambodia is miles from here. :p

Re:Try to hack this...

[kwoo]

And for complete anonymity, take your thumb, lick it, and rub over your social security numbers til you can't read it any more.

I would love to, but there's this little problem that brings up later in the process... :P

No you fucking idiot!!!

[Mr. Underbridge]

And for complete anonymity, take your thumb, lick it, and rub over your social security numbers til you can't read it any more.

Good God, you idiot! Now they'll have your DNA!!!

oops

[flynt]

Wow it's April 15th on Friday, lucky I read Slashdot!

Re:It worked!!!

[symbolset]

The guy who recommended to Comcast that they stick with good, old reliable Windows NT4 for DNS service just joined the unemployment line. They'll be back up in a week or two.

Re:The morality of the story:

[nacturation]

My federal and state returns cost me 60 cents postage each. I'm wasting another 28 cents because I threw on two 37 cent stamps instead of waiting in line for exact postage.

I hope you calculated the math for your return better than you did for your postage.

Re:The morality of the story:

[4of12]

Perhaps the US should outsource its tax collection to the UK.

Actually, we use to have an arrangment just like that.

From what I understand, it didn't work out very well.

Why would we want your sucky government when we have a perfectly fine sucky government right here at home?

Broad generalizations

[benhocking]

Would you say that all people who make broad generalizations are idiots? ;)