Venmo Payments Should Be Private

Venmo Payments Default to a public setting, meaning if you use the app as it appears you do. This, obiviously, isn’t a great idea. And the problem expands beyond just People Perusing The Payment Feed in the App. A Computer-Science Student Recently Scraped Data from 7 Million Transactions, Acciting to Tech Crunch. The date was obtained over the Course of Six Months.

The student, Dan SalmonUsed Venmo’s Developer api to get the date. Which means he didn’t Need anybody’s Permission to Access Their Transaction Information. He technically didn’t need to have the app. And he’s swimming the first to do this. This has haen a knows issue for venmo for some time now. A Different Researcher Downloaded Hundreds of Millions of Transactions Last Year.

If the obvious security risk arenough to deteriorate, please know if your venmo transensions are public i Will be stalking say. Or if not with, someone Else who is equally nosy. or Longime Venmo voyeurI’m no stranger to poking around in the app unil i’m down a rabbit hole reading transensions between my former rommate’s ex-boyfriend’s hairstylist. Don’t make it this easy for me to find out what you’re up to.