Open Technology Workshop – Privacy-focused Financial Services

Meeting Details

September 16, 2026
Topic: Privacy-focused Financial Services
Description: Corporations are always trying to find more ways to extract money from customers. That’s just business. But with today’s spending being increasingly more cashless, your digital payment records are new a large source of revenue for businesses that sell information about you to data brokers and advertisers. However, there are business that offer to mediate transactions while protecting your identity and other personal data. In this workshop, we’ll explore the use cases and trust models of such services, and learn just how much privacy protection they claim to offer.

Learn more:
https://www.privacy.com
https://anonyome.com/individuals/mysudo/
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/financial-services/

Feel free to bring your laptops and we'll dive right in! If you've got some questions you'd like to talk about, put them in the Meetup comments below!