<quote>
“Venmo’s finally getting the message that maximum publicity on a
financial app is a terrible idea,” says Kaili Lambe, senior campaigner
at the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit focused on Internet openness and
accessibility. “However, from the beginning we have been calling on
Venmo to be private by default, because so many Venmo users don’t
actually know that their transactions are public to the world.”
</quote>
Article by Brian Barrett (Executive Editor, News at WIRED) at:
<URL:
https://www.wired.com/story/venmo-privacy-by-default-global-feed/>
and also at
<URL:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/venmo-gets-more-private-but-its-still-not-fully-safe/>
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