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ac29 on Aug 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plaid settled $58M lawsuit over alleged consumer d...

Optimizing away user consent for collection and storage of highly sensitive banking transaction data certainly meets my bar for "shady".

geoduck14 on Aug 17, 2021 [–]

I disagree. This sounds like an enthusiastic developer that may or may not have fully described the situation to the PM.

Shady would happen depending on what they did with the data.

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