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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What is a privacy friendly application that you'd love to have, but no one has developed yet? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by reactive_recall@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] feef@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_banking

All banks in EU have APIs for this purpose (also see PSD2).

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Banks in the US use Open Banking APIs too, they won't open it up for the public to use, though. Every company, not just banks, wants us to have their app on our phone.