![]() I thought, there must be something I’m not getting here. It looked like he was sending her money for birth control. The subject line was just three emojis: a circle with a slash over it, a mom with a baby, and a pill. The first thing I saw was a payment from my boyfriend to another girl he had mentioned to me as being a friend. One day – actually, the week before Valentine’s Day – I was in the middle of my school’s dining hall, and I opened Venmo to pay a friend I’d gone out with for dinner the night before. He lived in Boston, so we saw each other on weekends, mostly. When I was a college student in Connecticut, I dated a boy long-distance. Tim Connor, 31, Chattanooga, Tennessee ‘He was sending her money for birth control’ Now, I’m more aware about not leaving myself logged into my accounts on different devices. She was out by the end of the day, and she never said what the money was for. I confronted her and asked her what happened, but she didn’t have anything to say. When someone steals from you, it doesn’t take more than a few minutes to realize that person’s got to go. I hadn’t noticed the payments, because they were rather small – maybe $20 every few months. One day I logged into Venmo, and I saw that my girlfriend had been sending herself payments from me. I probably checked it every couple of months. ![]() ![]() It’s one of those things where I installed it, set it up, and forgot about it. I owned a property at that time and I used Venmo for things associated with managing it, like paying the lawn care company for work. We would share each other’s phones when we needed to make calls or look something up if her phone was right in front of me, I’d use hers. Two years ago, I met a woman who worked at the mall. But before you read on, maybe go check your privacy settings. We spoke to people who learned things they shouldn’t have on the app. We’re all accidentally telling on ourselves. Another researcher documented a year’s worth of public interactions in the lives of strangers on Venmo and found what Vice called “a soap opera”. ![]() What does this mean for the rest of us? A study conducted by experts at the University of Southern California found that two in five Venmo users publicly reveal “sensitive information” on the app. It took Buzzfeed reporters less than 10 minutes to find the president’s personal account, where he reportedly sends his grandchildren funds. When Daily Beast journalists snooped Matt Gaetz’s transactions, they discovered the Florida Representative had paid an accused sex trafficker through the app.Įven Joe Biden didn’t have his account switched to private. Though users have the option to make their payments private, many forget to. ![]()
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