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We're in the era of less control, more surveillance, more "security", more being treated like a child and lied to. Just yesterday I got a venmo prompt to add b
by hnpolicestate 1y ago
We're in the era of less control, more surveillance, more "security", more being treated like a child and lied to.
Just yesterday I got a venmo prompt to add biometrics for "security". F off.
- jbhifilover 1y ago"Just yesterday, an app that directly impacts my money, asked me to make it more secure" - how did you survive? Vemno doesn't get your bio data, it just gets a true or false from the OS.
- donmcronald 1y agoI had to do a government ID upload and a live face scan to install my banking app on a new phone even though I had other devices I could have used to authorize it. It made me want to switch banks, but where do you go?
- const_cast 1y agoJesus fucking Christ this is bleak. You should not have to do this. If your bank allows a browser log in just use that. DO NOT trust financial institutions with your data. They WILL leak it. Its only a matter of time.
- ohdeargodno 1y agoFor what it's worth, Venmo will not get access to your biometrics data, it's a black box in which you specify a desired level of authentication and the OS just returns ok/not ok. It is, however, to make you use Venmo more easily, thus more often, thus spend more money through them.