{"id":244575,"date":"2026-05-12T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/venmo-still-isnt-taking-privacy-seriously\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:50:08","slug":"venmo-still-isnt-taking-privacy-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/venmo-still-isnt-taking-privacy-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Venmo Still Isn&#8217;t Taking Privacy Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/venmo-privacy-settings-list-transactions-public-private-problems-contacts-2026-5\">Venmo Still Isn&#8217;t Taking Privacy Seriously<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/venmo-privacy-settings-list-transactions-public-private-problems-contacts-2026-5\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/venmo-privacy-settings-list-transactions-public-private-problems-contacts-2026-5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-12 14:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.businessinsider.com\">www.businessinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Call me a grouch, but I find it really hard to make any compelling argument for why anyone needs to see a feed of their friends&#8217; activity on Venmo.<\/p>\n<p>\n                          <span class=\"audio-player-label label-md-strong\">Loading audio narration&#8230;<\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>Is it really so interesting seeing that your friend paid someone for pizza?<\/p>\n<p>Venmo&#8217;s new redesign adds features that lean into that supposed social element. Transactions in your payments feed get larger images and even animated GIFs.<\/p>\n<p>I really wish Venmo would focus more on what users deserve \u2014 privacy by default! \u2014 instead of more emojis.<\/p>\n<p>The newest update finally does something Venmo should have done at least a decade ago: It makes the default setting for transactions &#8220;visible to friends only&#8221; instead of &#8220;public&#8221; for new users when they sign up for the app.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that it isn&#8217;t even really private \u2014 the default isn&#8217;t set to &#8220;only me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I put my concerns to Venmo, the company said the new settings give people more choice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Venmo customers have full control over what they share and who can see their activity, and the new app experience enhances how customers can manage their privacy settings,&#8221; Erin Mackey, a spokesperson for Venmo, told Business Insider. &#8220;New users will also default to &#8216;friends only,&#8217; reflecting what we heard from customers. Whether they prefer to share publicly, with friends, or keep their activity private, privacy settings are easy to find and update at any time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Venmo first launched, having a social&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/venmo-privacy-settings-list-transactions-public-private-problems-contacts-2026-5\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venmo Still Isn&#8217;t Taking Privacy Seriously https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/venmo-privacy-settings-list-transactions-public-private-problems-contacts-2026-5 Publish Date: 2026-05-12 14:41:00 Source Domain: www.businessinsider.com Call&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6a0373957c7e83f26041addd?width=1200&format=jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244577,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244575\/revisions\/244577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}