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Re:You Can Now Trade Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash on Robinhood ... by whockey on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:31PM (#17519911)
Hey! Co-founder of Plaid (plaid.com) here. RH does not pull your transaction history, RH is only using Plaid to authenticate your ACH accounts to make sure your actually the owner of the account and so you don't get over-drafted. They're using our auth and balance product, feel free to check out what information we return on our docs (http://plaid.com/docs).
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Re:You Can Now Trade Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash on Robinhood ... by beaner on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:11PM (#17520050)
But they could potentially use you for more and users don't have insight into whether or not they do or if it will change.
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Re:You Can Now Trade Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash on Robinhood ... by dawhizkid on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:24PM (#17520282)
Agreed there is no transparency around which endpoints are being used. There needs to be a screen that shows what data you’re providing like FB or Google login before you link anything.
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Re:You Can Now Trade Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash on Robinhood ... by krustyburger on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:21PM (#17526355)
Even the account balance is information they would not normally have and something most people consider personal and private.
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Re:You Can Now Trade Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash on Robinhood ... by throwaway37585 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:47PM (#17519965)
Nitpick: you’re → your.
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