Friday, May 14, 2021

"BuzzFeed News found President Joe Biden’s Venmo account after less than 10 minutes of looking for it"

Buzzfeed:

On Friday, 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 using only a combination of the app’s built-in search tool and public friends feature. In the process, BuzzFeed News found nearly a dozen Biden family members and mapped out a social web that encompasses not only the first family, but a wide network of people around them, including the president's children, grandchildren, senior White House officials, and all of their contacts on Venmo.

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Even if a Venmo account is set to make payments private, its friend list remains exposed. There is no setting to make this information private