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7M Venmo Transactions Scraped To Warn Users

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The move comes a year after privacy researcher Hang Do Thi Duc downloaded 207 million Venmo transactions to prove a similar point. There’s truly no reason to have this API open to unauthenticated requests,” Salmon told reporters. “The Venmo payments between users are set to public by default.

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Advocacy Groups Call On FTC To Break Up Facebook

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Facebook is facing breakup calls from a handful of advocacy groups that want the Federal Trade Commission to explore breaking up the social media giant. The paper noted that the FTC, which has been shut down along with other parts of the government, didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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