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Barclays Bank App Horror
"Allow Barclays to find, connect to and determine the relative position of nearby devices?" says the mandatory update just delivered to my Android Barclays Bank UK app.
What the ???
What business does a bank have in connecting to nearby devices?
Who in their right mind would allow it?
And what part of this service is going to break horribly when I disallow it?
- mdp2021 2y agoProbably a system to exchange electronic money? ...Which would by the way suggest that you may not want some software to run in the background, but be turned on only when you know you are in a fitting situation...
- chrisjj 2y ago> Probably a system to exchange electronic money? I didn't request or authorise that.
- mdp2021 2y agoWell, an app serving all customers is supposed to satisfy the needs of all customers. The crucial point is that each customer should be able to configure the app to disable all the unwanted - not just for "lack of interest", but with the purpose of closing all the security implications of personally-not-interesting features.
- chrisjj 2y ago> app serving all customers is supposed to satisfy the needs of all customers Including customers who need to not give a bank permission to connect to nearby devices for totally undisclosed purposes. This such customer has not been served.
- DamonHD 2y agoThere are reasons that I will not run financal apps (or anything sensitive) on my phone. That sounds like another for the list...
- toomuchtodo 2y agoSwitch banks? Barclays is not a good experience and should be avoided at all costs.
- chrisjj 2y ago> And what part of this service is going to break horribly when I disallow it? I neither allowed it or disallowed it, but left it until it self-terminated. I relaunched it, and it told me to register. Yup, it had wiped my registration.