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EFF and Mozilla scold Venmo over app’s privacy failings
The tense stand-off between privacy campaigners and the popular mobile payment app Venmo has taken another turn for the worse.
Millions of Venmo transactions scraped (again)
Not much has changed since a year ago, when a bot was tweeting out publicly visible Venmo “drug” deals from the public-by-default company.
Names and photos of Venmo ‘drug buyers’ published on Twitter
The bot scraped Venmo’s public API for sex, drugs and alcohol-related words, then tweeted profile photos and first names of the “buyers.”
Venmo users: time to hide your drug deals and excessive pizza consumption
To its fans, Venmo is a hassle-free P2P app that lets anyone living in the US send money to friends, split a restaurant bill, pay for a ride on Uber, or buy a hotel room. To the security conscious, it’s a privacy nightmare.
Venmo mobile payment service under fire for security carelessness
Venmo is taking heat after a news report last week revealed security holes you could “drive a truck through,” in the words of one aggrieved Venmo user whose account was drained of $2850.