Venmo: Difference between revisions

In a 2018 study, researchers looked at over 200 million public transactions and found that Venmo "shares an enormous quantity of private data about users' lives by default."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Paul |first=Kari |date=22 Jul 2018 |title=The scary reasons you should make your Venmo account private |url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-scary-reasons-you-should-make-your-venmo-account-private-2018-07-17 |url-status=live |access-date=25 Mar 2025 |website=MarketWatch |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251023043448/https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-scary-reasons-you-should-make-your-venmo-account-private-2018-07-17 |archive-date=23 Oct 2025}}</ref> Venmo makes transactions visible on a public feed by default unless users choose to make them only visible to friends or just visible to the two parties involved in a transaction.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cole |first=Samantha |date=28 Aug 2019 |title=Venmo Is Still Exposing Your Connections to Everyone You Know |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/venmo-letter-eff-mozilla-public-by-default-settings/ |url-status=live |access-date=25 Mar 2025 |website=Vice |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251216034304/https://www.vice.com/en/article/venmo-letter-eff-mozilla-public-by-default-settings/ |archive-date=16 Dec 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Salmon |first=Dan |date=26 Jun 2019 |title=I Scraped Millions of Venmo Payments. Your Data Is at Risk |url=https://www.wired.com/story/i-scraped-millions-of-venmo-payments-your-data-is-at-risk/ |url-status=live |access-date=25 Mar 2025 |website=Wired |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260116082415/https://www.wired.com/story/i-scraped-millions-of-venmo-payments-your-data-is-at-risk/ |archive-date=16 Jan 2026}}</ref>