Comment by cnst

20 hours ago

I fail to see how your conclusion follows from the premise.

Banking apps in the US don't even show any PINs for 2FA, so, why exactly is Schwab doing that again?

BTW, Google Wallet does let you take screenshots of all the views except for just one or two views where you enter card number, billing and card security code. Honestly, even that is an overreach; it's not like I can't use the camera to take a photo of my credit card with CVV in view, so, why should the camera function of any app prevent that again? Google never blocks screenshots of any transactions, last-4 of any card, or any other screens. If they ever did, I'd be far less happy with them, and would go out of my way to find an alternative contactless provider. Wells Fargo used to provide contactless on Android in their app for their own cards, but, probably thanks to Apple, this feature was removed for feature parity with iOS.

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charcircuit  20 hours ago

>why should the camera function of any app prevent that again?

Because you taking a photo of it with a physical camera is intentional. Another app on the device screen recording that view may not be intentional by the user.

  • yjftsjthsd-h  20 hours ago

    > Another app on the device screen recording that view may not be intentional by the user.

    Given how many permission prompts you have to go through to let any app see your screen, I feel to see how it would be unintentional.

    • charcircuit  12 hours ago

      Starting the recording may have been intentional, but the recording of sensitive content may not be. For example Twitch streamers frequently leak their personal information by accident. If that personal information could automatically be blacked out it would save them from trouble.