{"id":246876,"date":"2026-05-15T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/chatgpts-new-banking-feature-sounds-convenient-but-the-privacy-cost-is-steep\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:50:08","slug":"chatgpts-new-banking-feature-sounds-convenient-but-the-privacy-cost-is-steep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/chatgpts-new-banking-feature-sounds-convenient-but-the-privacy-cost-is-steep\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT&#8217;s new banking feature sounds convenient, but the privacy cost is steep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/chatgpts-new-banking-feature-convenient-with-privacy-cost\/\">ChatGPT&#8217;s new banking feature sounds convenient, but the privacy cost is steep<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/chatgpts-new-banking-feature-convenient-with-privacy-cost\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/chatgpts-new-banking-feature-convenient-with-privacy-cost\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 17:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        ChatGPT Pro subscribers can now link to their bank via Plaid to view balances, transactions, and more in chat.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Granting ChatGPT access risks exposing detailed finances; anyone with chat access could see sensitive data.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        OpenAI offers controls and deletions but retains data for up to 30 days.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was only a matter of time, but now OpenAI is asking you to trust ChatGPT with access to your financial records. While the newly revealed feature utilizes a secure platform called Plaid to make the handshake between your bank and the AI, there are a lot of privacy concerns lying in wait beneath the surface.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThis ChatGPT trick feels too good to be hidden<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Did you know ChatGPT can do this?<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/chatgpts-new-banking-feature-convenient-with-privacy-cost\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT&#8217;s new banking feature sounds convenient, but the privacy cost is steep https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/chatgpts-new-banking-feature-convenient-with-privacy-cost\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chatgpt-using-financial-information-to-answer-requests.webp?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246876","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\/246876"}],"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=246876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246878,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246876\/revisions\/246878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}