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Here’s a reminder to make your Venmo transactions private, courtesy of Clarence Thomas / Lawyers appearing before the Supreme Court sent money to a Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo, according to the aide’s profile. Don’t be like him.
For the record, a lot of my friends keep their transactions public on Venmo. A social engineer could do a lot with what's being publicly shared here.
@voltronic Already done.
@voltronic You can also make them even more private by NOT using a service with policies like this.
Why do business with a company that behaves this way at all? When they start out by being untrustworthy and not caring about the privacy of especially financial transactions, why trust your financial transactions with them in the first place?
Here's the part that infuriates me:
"Transactions are public by default, and users must manually change their privacy settings if they want to limit visibility. It’s not clear many users know this — or, even if they do, that they fully understand how much other people can see."
It's RIGHT THERE in front of your face as soon as you open the app!!! If you can see other people's business, wouldn't you assume they can see yours, unless you change your settings??!?!?