Here's the worst part: Even if Spicer had set the maximum privacy settings on his account, other users could still find his account by searching for his name.  What's more — even if your account is set to private — anyone who has your phone number can use it to find your full name, simply by initiating a transaction. Bye, bye anonymity! The company doesn't have any plans to update its privacy settings to allow users to go invisible, Venmo's head of corporate affairs and communications, Josh Criscoe, said in a phone interview.

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