July 17, 2018 03:01 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zrCHryAo1o0/privacy-by-design-vs-venmo.html
Venmo's "public by default" transactions reveal drug deals, breakups, more
Because Venmo defaults to making all payments public, privacy researcher Hang Do Thi Duc was able to download and analyze 208,000,000 transactions, whose notes and other metadata revealed a wealth of personal, compromising information, including drug deals and breakups. (more…)
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