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===Privacy and sovereignty=== | ===Privacy and sovereignty=== | ||
Attempting to send an email to the non-existent address [email protected] reveals that the company's mail servers run via the domain aspmx.l.google.com, indicating that Trade Republic's email communication runs over servers run by US advertising giant [[Google]], which raises significant concerns about privacy and digital sovereignty.{{Citation needed}}<!-- This can be trivially verified, but still violates the "no original research" rule. Maybe we can find other sources for this information. -->Moreover, investments by the ''Founder's Fund'' of controversial American investor Peter Thiel, who owns large parts of [[Palantir]] and [[PayPal]], have raised concerns about privacy and potential foreign interference.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schuetze |first=Arno |date=2025-12-17 |title=Thiel Boosts Trade Republic Stake in €1.2 Billion Secondary |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/thiel-boosts-trade-republic-stake-through-1-2-billion-secondary |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251217090916/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/thiel-boosts-trade-republic-stake-through-1-2-billion-secondary |archive-date=17 Dec 2025|access-date=2026-01-01 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> | Attempting to send an email to the non-existent address [email protected] reveals that the company's mail servers run via the domain aspmx.l.google.com, indicating that Trade Republic's email communication runs over servers run by US advertising giant [[Google]], which raises significant concerns about privacy and digital sovereignty.{{Citation needed}}<!-- This can be trivially verified, but still violates the "no original research" rule. Maybe we can find other sources for this information. -->Moreover, investments by the ''Founder's Fund'' of controversial American investor Peter Thiel, who owns large parts of [[Palantir]] and [[PayPal]], have raised concerns about privacy and potential foreign interference.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schuetze |first=Arno |date=2025-12-17 |title=Thiel Boosts Trade Republic Stake in €1.2 Billion Secondary |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/thiel-boosts-trade-republic-stake-through-1-2-billion-secondary |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251217090916/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/thiel-boosts-trade-republic-stake-through-1-2-billion-secondary |archive-date=17 Dec 2025|access-date=2026-01-01 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> | ||
The Exodus Privacy Project lists a total of 7 trackers inside of the app, including several advertising companies such as Adjust and Google.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-12-26 |title=Trade Republic Version 4.2552.1 |url=https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/de/reports/de.traderepublic.app/latest/ |access-date=2026-01-01 |website=Exodus Privacy Project}}</ref> This is at odds with the German principle of [[wikipedia:Bank_secrecy|''Bankgeheimnis'' (banking confidentiality)]], the notion that banks have the duty to protect the information of their customers except where required by anti-fraud legislation. | The Exodus Privacy Project lists a total of 7 trackers inside of the app, including several advertising companies such as Adjust and Google.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-12-26 |title=Trade Republic Version 4.2552.1 |url=https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/de/reports/de.traderepublic.app/latest/ |access-date=2026-01-01 |website=Exodus Privacy Project |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260224103531/https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/de/reports/de.traderepublic.app/latest/ |archive-date=24 Feb 2026}}</ref> This is at odds with the German principle of [[wikipedia:Bank_secrecy|''Bankgeheimnis'' (banking confidentiality)]], the notion that banks have the duty to protect the information of their customers except where required by anti-fraud legislation. | ||
===Forced app=== | ===Forced app=== | ||
Critical features, such as signing up for an account, identity verification and, crucially, support chat, are only available from within the app. The service cannot be used using the website alone. Unlike most German banks, Trade Republic does not support the [[wikipedia:FinTS|FinTS]] standard, which would allow integration into normal banking apps.{{Citation needed}} | Critical features, such as signing up for an account, identity verification and, crucially, support chat, are only available from within the app. The service cannot be used using the website alone. Unlike most German banks, Trade Republic does not support the [[wikipedia:FinTS|FinTS]] standard, which would allow integration into normal banking apps.{{Citation needed}} | ||