Millions of Venmo transactions scraped in warning over privacy settings
TechCrunch Industry News · TechCrunch
June 17, 20194m 15s
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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.
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