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Why You Should Immediately Make Your Venmo Payments Private [Still True in 2021]
- cgriswald 6y ago> In one instance, she was able to determine that two users who frequently made transactions with one another were a married couple in San Diego who owned a car and a dog and had recently taken the dog to the vet. She was able to distinguish that they shopped weekly for groceries at Walmart, were paying off a loan and frequently ordered pizza. This is why people don’t take the threat seriously. If I told any of my family and friends about this find they’d shrug unless they already agreed with me. Some of them even want people to know the things about them that can be found out through Venmo and use it for that purpose. The article vaguely mentions stalking, but doesn’t really point out a specific credible threat. It doesn’t feel very visceral to me and because of that I suspect it won’t feel visceral to others and they won’t consider it a problem.