{"id":57777,"date":"2024-05-01T10:52:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T15:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57777"},"modified":"2024-05-01T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T15:53:20","slug":"wapo-apple-google-and-venmo-fight-new-u-s-plan-to-monitor-payment-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57777","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Apple, Google and Venmo fight new U.S. plan to monitor payment apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2024\/05\/01\/tech-banks-government-regulation\/\">Apple, Google and Venmo fight new U.S. plan to monitor payment apps<\/a> by Tony Romm (&#8220;The U.S. government is weighing whether to treat Apple, Google and PayPal-owned Venmo more like banks \u2014 and regularly inspect some of their operations \u2014 in a move meant to protect millions of Americans who now use their smartphones to pay at the register and send money to family and friends. But the prospect of heightened federal oversight has sparked deep and wide-ranging unease throughout the tech industry, triggering a lobbying offensive that aims to limit the government\u2019s power to monitor mobile wallets, accounts or other digital payment services.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Apple, Google and Venmo fight new U.S. plan to monitor payment apps by Tony Romm (&#8220;The U.S. government is weighing whether to treat Apple, Google and PayPal-owned Venmo more like banks \u2014 and regularly inspect some of their operations &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57779,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57777\/revisions\/57779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}