Good morning. Huge news if you’re a Venmo user: The PayPal-owned service will reportedly change the default setting for the payments feed of new users to “friends only” rather than “public.”
If true, it’s the end of a freewheeling era for a payments app that took the 2010s by storm for, well, letting it all hang out. (And creating another language all its own to maintain a gossamer veil of privacy without going into lockdown.)
I’d say the change also brings to a close the era of discovering secret social media accounts for sitting U.S. presidents, but something tells me that we’re only at the beginning, eh?
Today’s tech news below. —Andrew Nusca
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