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Key takeaways from We Found Joe Biden's Secret Venmo. Here’s Why That’s A Privacy Nightmare For Everyone

The peer-to-peer payments app leaves everyone from ordinary people to the most powerful person in the world exposed. Open at source

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following a passing mention in the New York Times that the president had sent his grandchildren money on Venmo, BuzzFeed News searched for the president’s account

No other major social network or service has contact-based friend lists that are publicly accessible by default to anyone — and that cannot be made private.

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