Venmo
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| developer | PayPal |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| operating system | Android and iOS |
| category | Mobile Payments |
| License | Proprietary |
| German speaking | No |
| www.venmo.com | |
Venmo is a mobile payment service from PayPal .
functionality
Registered users can use the app to send and receive amounts of money and pay for purchases. The app uses typical social media elements, so users can, for example, split bills among each other (e.g. for cinema tickets or a taxi ride). Transactions in your own network and publicly can be shared via a news feed and provided with details such as B. emojis and jokes.
Venmo is currently only available for users in the USA .
Criticism of data protection
Privacy advocates criticize the fact that a Venmo user agrees in the default settings to share transactions and related information via the Venmo API. To demonstrate the problem of this standard setting , the security researcher Hang Do Thi Duc built the website publicbydefault.fyi on which he draws attention to the problem and shows how the data can be obtained via the API.
With the help of the transaction information, it is possible to extract information that users can attach to transactions. Among other things, it is said to have been able to identify cannabis dealers.
To draw even more attention to the problem, computer science student Dan Salmon published over 7 million public transactions by users of the Venmo app in a database that he uploaded to GitHub.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Venmo: Requirements. July 11, 2019, accessed July 17, 2019 .
- ↑ publicbydefault.fyi page 3. Retrieved on July 17, 2019 (English).
- ↑ PayPal payment app Venmo: transaction data is blown into the network by default. July 18, 2018, accessed July 17, 2019 .
- ↑ database of public Venmo transactions on Github. June 18, 2019, accessed July 17, 2019 .