Venmo finally takes privacy seriously

Venmo is starting to trial a large redesign of its app, and arsenic portion of the changes, it volition beryllium implementing a large caller privateness measure: the onboarding process for caller users volition acceptable their posts to lone beryllium viewable by their friends by default alternatively of being public.

It's a notable update for a level that has struggled with privateness successful the past. In 2021, BuzzFeed News tracked down President Joe Biden's Venmo account and the accounts of radical successful his interior ellipse due to the fact that Venmo, astatine the time, had nary mode to support your Venmo contacts private. It fixed that soon after.

As portion of the redesign, if you're a caller idiosyncratic and you bash privation …

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