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Maybe Mint should scrape Amazon and other retailers in addition to bank websites? Would you trust Mint to keep your Amazon password in addition to your bank's?

Maybe Mint should scrape Amazon and other retailers in addition to bank websites? Would you trust Mint to keep your Amazon password in addition to your bank's? (Maybe Mint should pivot slightly to include password database management? :p ) Right now, our system is pretty much how you describe it, where the financial institution only gets the basic information of who and how much. And if you want more detail, the retailer provides it. So I guess you're looking for a service that centralizes that info into the same place as your other financial details? (paragraphs, please)

Charos 13y ago
Mint is now owned by Intuit. Are the original founders still with the project? If not, I'd be surprised to see them take such a precient direction.
- drumdance 13y ago
  I believe the founder is still head of product development for all of Intuit.
  - tb303 13y ago
    Not the case. And we are all gone. None of the original team remains.
canvia 13y ago
What if retailers/banks gave you a separate account login that can only be used to read data? There wouldn't be nearly as much risk in giving this out to third parties.
- stephengillie 13y ago
  What if retailers/banks gave you an API (with authentication of course) that can only be used to read data?
chrsstrm 13y ago
You know, Google reads all your email and uses it in combination with your search history to populate Google Now cards. When you buy something online, you typically get a detailed email receipt. I bet if anyone knows exactly what you buy, it would be Google. That is, if you are using Gmail.