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Displaying personal balance - Thats come up before, will try to get a fix prioritized for that.
by immad 6y ago
Displaying personal balance - Thats come up before, will try to get a fix prioritized for that.
- kevinyun 6y agoJust wanna say we love using Mercury, and it's really the perfect bank for startups. We also experienced the personal balance privacy issue where we didn't expect to see each other's balances but was too late by then.
- quadrifoliate 6y ago> Displaying personal balance - Thats come up before, will try to get a fix prioritized for that. Leaking information about a personal account when it has only been used authorized for the purposes of transfer seems to be a P0 bug to me, from a disinterested third-party point of view. If I authorize a transfer of $10k to my startup and for some reason my co-founder is able to see that my personal account balance at Bank of America is $400k, that sounds like...a massive leak of information that I didn't authorize. Or do I have a mistaken view of what the problem is?
- immad 6y ago99% of the time Plaid functionality is used to transfer money from your previous business bank account to Mercury. In that scenario it's useful to have balance information. Most people transfer money from personal account via another means (checks, wire etc). Though agreed that it's bad when a personal account is used and the balance is leaked to cofounders.
- quadrifoliate 6y agoAh I see, I had the typical use case wrong. Thanks for your response!
- fortran77 6y agoIt's bad, but not a "massive leak". Few people keep much more than the FDIC limit in a commercial bank for their personal account no matter how much money they have.