Twitterbot mines Venmo's public-by-default transactions and tweets presumably sarcastic drug buys and sexual services
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3V6NH)
When Hang Do Thi Duc published her work on the privacy implications of payment processor Venmo's "public-by-default" directory of payments, she did not release her dataset out of respect for the privacy of the Venmo users whose personal lives were on display in the data. (more")