Cyber & IT Supervisory Forum - Additional Resources

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16.1.1 PayPal Privacy Settings PayPal’s account data and privacy settings allow you to manage the use of PayPal to make payments on other apps and websites. Within the data and privacy settings, you can also turn off various cookies and control settings such as reminders and advertisements. 387 16.1.2 Setting Payments To Private By default, any time you pay for something through Venmo, that amount, and description are public and shown to your other friends on the app. Here is how to make it private.

 In the smartphone app, click on the profile icon, then the settings icon (looks like a gear). Select Privacy and set the Default Privacy Settings to Private (not Public or Friends ).

16.1.3 Hide Past Transactions You will have made an added privacy tweak to hide your past Venmo payments.

 In the same screen, scroll down to More and click Past Transactions . Tap on Change All to Private .

“Tipping” on Twitter In May 2021, Twitter integrated a PayPal "Tip Jar” system into Twitter’s website, only to receive concerns from users when it was found that Tip Jar revealed the sender’s address during each transaction. 388  This meant that any Twitter user who "tipped” ano ther user could unknowingly reveal where they live.  Fortunately, this risk can be mitigated by you selecting No Address Needed as an option when they send someone a “tip” on Twitter. 389

Venmo Privacy Settings Venmo, which is owned by PayPal, 390 offers privacy settings for your transaction history as well as your user account, but it should be noted that most information is set to public by default. 391

 Also of note, any user information sent to Venmo is accessible to PayPal as well. 392

16.3.1 Venmo Transaction Settings

 Public : The transaction will be shared on the public feed and anyone on the internet may be able to see it.  Friends only: The transaction will only be shared with your Venmo friends and with the other participant’s Venmo friends.  Private: Venmo will not share the transaction anywhere other than the Your Stories tab in the personal transactions feed and, if it is a payment to another user, the feed of the other person in the payment.

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