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Millions of Venmo transactions scraped in warning over privacy settings

Posted on June 17, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Zack Whittaker reports:

A computer science student has scraped seven million Venmo transactions to prove that users’ public activity can still be easily obtained, a year after a privacy researcher downloaded hundreds of millions of Venmo transactions in a similar feat.

Dan Salmon said he scraped the transactions during a cumulative six months to raise awareness and warn users to set their Venmo payments to private.

Read more on TechCrunch.

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