Jan 19, 2024
The Markup found that tax preparation services including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block have sent users’ personal financial information to
So. Um. Good year to calculate your own taxes instead of using an online service.
Dammit.
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The Markup found that tax preparation services including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block have sent users’ personal financial information to
So. Um. Good year to calculate your own taxes instead of using an online service.
Dammit.
TumPub: Stealing Your Content Since 2019
Just got a Google alert about my username showing up at TumPub, which I’d never heard of. Hey look, my entire account is there!
They have no “about us” page, no terms of service, no contact info at all. Just a “privacy policy” that’s vague and useless. I suspect that entering a username will start downloading that person’s content.
This would be an excellent time for someone with access to a copyright lawyer to just file a lawsuit, since they don’t provide a method for DMCA takedown requests.
So It Goes
Heald College was founded in 1863. It lasted over 150 years, survived two world wars and the great depression, adapted its business education programs to work with typewriters, telephones, women’s suffrage, prohibition and its repeal, automobile travel, the 40-hour work week, racial integration, answering machines, the ADA, personal computers, and the internet.
It only took Corinthian five years to kill it. Congrats, assholes.
I screencapped every conversation from my online classes... I’m not surprised at this turn of events. There were plenty of students I could look at and say, “oh honey... you were not ready for college. In two years, you’re going to have $20k in debt and either no degree, because you really can’t scrape together the GPA for it, or a degree that can’t get you hired because any employer is going to notice that you can’t write a coherent paragraph.”
On the one hand... it’s good to have schools that provide an education to students who need flexible schedules, whose past academic history isn’t great, who just want to learn a set of trade skills and don’t have the time to pick up a swarm of general ed classes.
On the other... lying about job placement rates and signing up students they know are likely to default on their loans, is not a long-term success plan. It sucks that so many students got caught in their MAKE.MONEY.FAST scheme.