{"id":92208,"date":"2019-06-16T20:03:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T03:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/millions-of-venmo-transactions-scraped-in-warning-over-privacy-settings"},"modified":"2019-06-16T20:03:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T03:03:18","slug":"millions-of-venmo-transactions-scraped-in-warning-over-privacy-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/millions-of-venmo-transactions-scraped-in-warning-over-privacy-settings","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Venmo transactions scraped in warning over privacy settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/millions-of-venmo-transactions-scraped-in-warning-over-privacy-settings.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A computer science student has scraped seven million <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/venmo\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"venmo\">Venmo<\/a> transactions to prove that users\u2019 public activity can still be easily obtained, a year after a privacy researcher downloaded hundreds of millions of Venmo transactions in a similar feat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bltjetpack\">Dan Salmon<\/a> said he scraped the transactions during a cumulative six months to raise awareness and warn users to set their Venmo payments <a href=\"https:\/\/publicbydefault.fyi\/#venmo\">to private<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The peer-to-peer mobile payments service faced criticism last year after <a href=\"https:\/\/storyengine.io\/hang-do-thi-duc\/\">Hang Do Thi Duc<\/a>, a former Mozilla fellow, downloaded 207 million transactions. The scraping effort was possible because Venmo payments between users are public by default. The scrapable data inspired several new projects \u2014 including a bot that tweeted out every time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/qvmkvx\/twitter-bot-venmo-buying-drugs-photo-names\">someone bought drugs.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer science student has scraped seven million Venmo transactions to prove that users\u2019 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}