PSA for US Congresspeople: here’s how to set your Venmo feed to private

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeHello, yes, it has come to my attention that Matt Gaetz left his Venmo feed public and The Daily Beast has used this public feed to report a salacious story about his transactions.
Yeah, you read that right. His Venmo feed was public.
A public Venmo feed, especially one with questionable transactions, is a powerful way to amass personal information
People have been warning about Venmo’s public feeds for quite some time. You can figure out a lot about a person by monitoring their financial transactions through Venmo! In Gaetz’s case, we found out he sent money — $900, in two transactions— to Joel Greenberg, who is accused of sex trafficking. The morning after Gaetz sent money, Greenberg sent three young women sums of money that totaled……

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