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Chozo@kbin.social 1 year agoI believe Mint uses Plaid's API and a login token from your bank to connect to your account; they're not doing web scraping or actually logging in with your account credentials.
amos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Plaid just settled a $58 million class action lawsuit for a) collecting people’s usernames and passwords then b) scraping their transaction history without their consent and selling it to data brokers.
From the complaint: