| Good interoperable APIs for banks, and ways for people to be able to access and use their own data: +10000 better future points Connecting my bank account to google sheets: -1000000 I do see the intention and the utility - people should be able to easily access and make sense of their data from whatever source and in whatever form. That you are enabling that and showcasing examples is admirable. Google services in particular are so deeply exposed across people's devices and accounts, past and present, that they have for a long time been one of the largest attack surfaces: - for incidental or targeted fraud from a distance - for intrusion by personal contacts: stalking, coercive control - for relinquishing control of personal data unintentionally: to an employer, to a state, or to arbitrary contacts by oversight because it's incredibly hard to track the myriad dimensions of sharing permissions In general I applaud what you're doing. I would love to see an example of how to have insight into and oversight of your banking data on your own machine, with a focus on privacy - that's missing from the ecosystem I think. |
The foundation of this are APIs for banks which you can use in any way you see fit and is completely independent from services like Google Sheets.