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Comment by b112

If you're bored, have Claude pull apart your APK and do a privacy report.

Your banking app is almost certainly using a company like (horrible and evil) Yodlee, which is given data by your banking app under the guise of "organizing your transactions into categories". Yodlee then quickly de-anonymizes it, by the identifiers which are identical and given to firebase, and various other orgs. Yodlee has been caught doing this before, and they still operate.

Lots of other companies do this, so if your banking app has any callbacks to anywhere but the bank itself, it's nothing but trouble.

After deanoymoization, such data is of course sold to everyone, including intelligence agencies, domestic and foreign.

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