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The data, sent through widely used code called the Meta Pixel, includes not only information like names and email addresses but often even more detailed information, including data on users’ income, filing status, refund amounts, and dependents’ college scholarship amounts

The investigators on this have included some of the data they saw being shared that you can see at their GitHub[0]

[0]: https://github.com/the-markup/meta-pixel-taxes

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