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Nana Ama Sarfo explains how the example of foreign tax authorities could help the U.S. as it plans to pilot a direct e-filing system.

Every time someone looks at a web page, they leave a trail of data that is scraped up, processed and sold to advertisers.  Xandr, a Microsoft subsidiary forgot to lock a spreadsheet, and it has inadvertently revealed the extraordinary level of information that is collected about each and every one of us. 

No matter how many “fact-checking” entities, like The Markup, get birthed, the facts always seem to get aborted. When you have billionaires funding your propaganda, you get to keep publishing deadly lies.

Atrium Health and Novant Health Inc. are among 33 major healthcare systems nationwide where certain patient information was tracked and made available to Facebook, according to a report released Thursday

A Meta code on hospitals' websites scooped up visitors' confidential details, tagged them to their IP addresses, and sent them to Meta, per the report.

A new investigation from The Markup sheds new light on just how big Amazon’s collection of in-house brands has gotten, and makes allegations about the advantages these brands have over third-party competitors.

Racial disparity in mortgage loan denials less pronounced in Winston-Salem area compared with N.C. metro peers

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A proposal to create a state-based public health insurance...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada website the public uses to get information on...