Breaking news: Third parties scan full transaction histories and balances from bank accounts of users who sign up for financial planning services (e.g. Mint).

Breaking news: Third parties scan full transaction histories and balances from bank accounts of users who sign up for financial planning services (e.g. Mint). The WSJ really knows how to write misleading, incendiary headlines about tech companies. Like, just read that comment section. Gotta stoke that techlash. Plenty of people have plenty of real reasons to hate Google, but hit pieces designed to drive the non-technical (and apparently some HN readers) to think "Oh no, my Gmails are being sold and read by people"--I guess it's too effective of a strategy to pass up. Just an utter shame. There is a real problem here, that lots and lots of users that glaze over the "This app can manage (view, send, delete) all of your emails" permission setting without thinking about it. I mean, even I double checked my permissions to make sure I hadn't accidentally given my email access away to a random plugin. What do you do about normal users (like my parents) who will gladly click Next and Confirm on every single popup in front of them, without even attempting to read it?