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Nothing pulls its iMessage app from the Play Store following privacy disaster (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Nothing Chats, a rival to apps like Beeper and AirMessage, advertised itself as a secure platform for sending messages to iMessage users.
  • However, less than 24 hours after its launch, investigations into the app revealed that Nothing Chats logged every message in plain text and stored unencrypted data, including text messages, images, videos, and more, making it a significant privacy and security risk.
  • The company removed the app from the Play Store following these complaints, citing "several bugs" that need fixing.
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't help that banks are normalizing this.

I recently began changing banks. To authorize a transfer from one to the other, my only option was to login via a popup. No place to specify account details just "log into your account to give us permissions". Fortunately the new bank is competent so I did it from that side, but it is still normalized insanity

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

What’s even worse is typically in the terms of those 3rd party sites, they say they can monitor your balances and transactions until you tell them to stop.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Because all the banks are invested in the company that manages bank logins as a service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaid_Inc.?wprov=sfti1

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Fuck plaid. I hate this