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People Are Using Venmo To Spy On Cheating Spouses (marketwatch.com)
According to MarketWatch's Leslie Albrecht, people are using the peer-to-peer payment app Venmo to find out if their spouse is cheating. Some are even saying the app is more effective than Facebook at this sort of investigation. "What you're seeing on Instagram or Facebook is what they want you to see," said Abby Faber, a 19-year-old freshman at Indiana University. "They're edited pictures that they put up. But with Venmo, it's very normal casual interactions. It's what they were doing and spending money on." From the report: Some users seem to forget that their transactions are public by default, and their payment activity provides an unfiltered paper trail of what's really happening in their lives. In [Faber's] case, she checked up on her ex-boyfriend and saw he was spending money on pizza and the popular video game Fortnite -- and making regular payments to one girl, who Faber guessed is his new hook-up.
Venmo has had a social component since it launched in 2009. Users see a feed of both their own friends' payments and total strangers' activity every time they open the app, and it's easy to look up users. Exact amounts aren't listed, but you can see who's paying who and which words or emoji they use to describe the payment. The social feed is Venmo's "secret sauce," said Erin Mackey, a spokeswoman for Venmo and its parent company PayPal. In fact, it's usually the reason people are logging on. "Our most active users check Venmo daily and the average user checks Venmo two to three times per week -- and it's not for payments, but to see what their friends and family are doing." The report mentions a settlement Venmo reached with the FTC last year over its public-by-default social component. The FTC accused (PDF) Venmo of "misleading" users about the fact that they needed to change two separate privacy settings to make their transactions completely private. "Venmo reached a settlement with the FTC, and a company spokesperson noted that users now have three options for controlling who can see their payments," reports MarketWatch.
Venmo has had a social component since it launched in 2009. Users see a feed of both their own friends' payments and total strangers' activity every time they open the app, and it's easy to look up users. Exact amounts aren't listed, but you can see who's paying who and which words or emoji they use to describe the payment. The social feed is Venmo's "secret sauce," said Erin Mackey, a spokeswoman for Venmo and its parent company PayPal. In fact, it's usually the reason people are logging on. "Our most active users check Venmo daily and the average user checks Venmo two to three times per week -- and it's not for payments, but to see what their friends and family are doing." The report mentions a settlement Venmo reached with the FTC last year over its public-by-default social component. The FTC accused (PDF) Venmo of "misleading" users about the fact that they needed to change two separate privacy settings to make their transactions completely private. "Venmo reached a settlement with the FTC, and a company spokesperson noted that users now have three options for controlling who can see their payments," reports MarketWatch.
That's all I have to say!
"In [Faber's] case, she checked up on her ex-boyfriend and saw he was spending money on pizza and the popular video game Fortnite -- and making regular payments to one girl, who Faber guessed is his new hook-up. "
That's a hooker.
Maybe I am just old.
...would someone use a payment system that tells everyone else what they're spending money on? Is the Snowflake Generation so narcissistic that they can't keep anything private?
What ... the ... actual ... goddamned ... fuck????
I had to Google, but this is a PayPal app, which makes your fucking transactions public by default?
Jesus mother fucking Christ almighty ... so, PayPal are assholes and people are idiots?
Why the fuck would you be using a payment app which makes your transactions public by default?
Fucking people and their social media, I will never understand this bullshit.
Whatever, I don't give a fuck what you idiots do. I don't understand it, but run wild, just leave me the fuck out of it.
Why would anyone use a payment app that exposes your transactions to anyone who wants to snoop?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
WHY? WHY? WHY? Why does everything you do or say or purchase or read or watch or order something that instantly needs to be publicly shared???? Why would your Freida be interested in what you recently spent money on? To brag about how much money they have? I just don't get this "social media" crap. Update: Steve just farted. Update: Steve walked to the fridge and took out a Budweiser and is drinking it while watching DeadPool.
Is it really spying if the data is just out there for anyone to see?
National Enquirer has a $1M reward for anyone who can pony up a copy of the Twitler and Stormy video.
You know there has to be one.
That is the stupidest thing i've ever heard of!
It seems venmo is a peer to peer payment app that also lets you leave social media comments.
In fact the platform started as a text messaging service. Its seeing huge growth with Millennials to 'settle up' with each other. Think, your drinks tab, sharing a cab, selling a game.
I think us lower UIDs, who have a solid memory of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, remember that spying was the key to rounding up millions of 'non conformists' for imprisonment or extermination. Young people don't have this historic memory of how psychopaths in power can misuse this information.
Statistically the world is becoming more peaceful and perhaps us oldies are just paranoid: time will tell!
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I read the headline as "People Are Using Venmo To Spy On Cheating Whores" before quickly realizing it says spouses. What in god's name is the term used for that kind of shit?
Don't pay for your regular hooker with Venmo.
Also, don't stick your dick in someone as dumb as a bag of rocks.
Also, I think that the users of Venmo might be as dumb as a bag of rocks.
Does anyone have a link to a Venmo user account? I want to see the what the public transactions look like.
That can also be tracked, but not by your spouse.
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I've heard of Venmo but actually assumed it was one of those "next gen" web business ideas that would crash and burn. Didn't even realize it was still a "thing".
It truly is one of the most STUPID, INANE ideas I can fathom that you'd want to tie in your payments for services or things to some kind of social network. Here we are, fighting for privacy in the era of security breaches everywhere, where people are stealing your personal information -- and yet we have these services that enable sharing the same kind of stuff freely and openly!
Not my own. But I'm looking for prospects.
Have gnu, will travel.
I had a customer wanting to pay me using Venmo for drugs. Jesus christ I'm glad I've never been into digital payments. Cash, bitches.
I already avoided Venmo because its security was apparently designed by cocaine-addled autistic toddlers... but TRANSACTIONS are PUBLIC by DEFAULT?!
Perhaps I’ve been overestimating their security staff, all this time.
#DeleteChrome
it's not even cheating.
and thats why (and many other reasons) I prefer to use cash unless obliged by law to do otherwise... fuck the cashless society, is all a scam to spy on you , is not convenient to use this apps, convenient is to have a big fat stack of 100s and pay with them
If youraction.condition == 'sketchy'
payment.type = 'cash'
else
youraction.do_it = False
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