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Comment by jeandenis

You’re right that I can’t write much (legal, PR team say hello).

The bottom line point is, we don’t sell data and that’s not the main allegation. The main allegation is that people didn’t understand that we were part of the flow of connecting banks to apps. We disagree.

Before 2017, there was a whitelabel experience of Plaid that didn’t say “Plaid”, didn’t have the Plaid logo, etc. We still stand by our belief that our disclosures at the time were more than adequate. But it’s not something we want to have protracted litigation around.

The reality is that our experience today is vastly different (and has been for a while). As for “what meaningful business practice changes could you be making if there's no issue to begin with.” Like most companies, we’re always making improvements to our experience -- today we have a consent pane that makes our role clear, a portal for people to manage their data, etc.

parent jeandenis 5 years ago

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