We will protect your privacy

Weeell, not so much.

From Bore Patch

"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."

And: “A researcher in Berlin mapped every Venmo transaction in 2017 using Venmo's public API. This isn't hacking, it's openly available data.”

https://borepatch.blogspot.com/2021/05/public-by-default.html