Neobank Bunq Shares Customers’ Investments to Their Contacts Without Permission

Bunq, a Dutch neobank that’s been growing in popularity in recent years, has started sharing users’ investments with others on their contacts list, according to RTL.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/12/22/neobank-bunq-shares-customers-investments-to-their-contacts-without-permission
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Very fishy bank indeed.
Everything from A to Z is with them tbh, their interview process (to work there) is pretty much “give me your entire private life” kind of workflow too.
Money is very good[1] and I love how they like to market themselves as green/playful etc…while having an awful UX and plenty of dark patterns. :unamused_face:


  1. duh while doing shenanigans like selling customers data ↩︎

That’s awful. I like it a lot for its nice features, but I would like to criticize bunq for many other things…

Like their awful UX, the “SPIN THE WHEEL” thing or overall lack of actually useful features besides the myriad of dark patterns?
I hate bunq too. :nerd_face:

can someone eli5 what a “neobank” is?

Bank that’s fully online no physical locations.

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A bank where Neo is the CEO

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:joy: not far from what i imagined

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No, impossible! How could we have guessed with such a name like Bunq!

Nope, I mean, they auto-export my monthly statements and send it to my email so that I don’t have to do it manually, and could approve iDeal transactions on web app so that I don’t have hold my phone all the time, and have higher interest on flexible savings than traditional banks in the Netherlands…

But yeah their UX is insane