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===Privacy and sovereignty=== | ===Privacy and sovereignty=== | ||
Attempting to send an email to the non-existent address [email protected] reveals that the company's mail servers run via the domain aspmx.l.google.com, indicating that Trade Republic's email communication runs over servers run by US advertising giant [[Google]], which raises significant concerns about privacy and digital sovereignty.{{Citation needed}}<!-- This can be trivially verified, but still violates the "no original research" rule. Maybe we can find other sources for this information. -->Moreover, investments by the ''Founder's Fund'' of controversial American investor Peter Thiel, who owns large parts of [[Palantir]] and [[PayPal]], have raised concerns about privacy and potential foreign interference.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schuetze |first=Arno |date=2025-12-17 |title=Thiel Boosts Trade Republic Stake in €1.2 Billion Secondary |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/thiel-boosts-trade-republic-stake-through-1-2-billion-secondary |archive-url=https:// | Attempting to send an email to the non-existent address [email protected] reveals that the company's mail servers run via the domain aspmx.l.google.com, indicating that Trade Republic's email communication runs over servers run by US advertising giant [[Google]], which raises significant concerns about privacy and digital sovereignty.{{Citation needed}}<!-- This can be trivially verified, but still violates the "no original research" rule. Maybe we can find other sources for this information. -->Moreover, investments by the ''Founder's Fund'' of controversial American investor Peter Thiel, who owns large parts of [[Palantir]] and [[PayPal]], have raised concerns about privacy and potential foreign interference.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schuetze |first=Arno |date=2025-12-17 |title=Thiel Boosts Trade Republic Stake in €1.2 Billion Secondary |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/thiel-boosts-trade-republic-stake-through-1-2-billion-secondary |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251217090916/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/thiel-boosts-trade-republic-stake-through-1-2-billion-secondary |archive-date=17 Dec 2025|access-date=2026-01-01 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> | ||
The Exodus Privacy Project lists a total of 7 trackers inside of the app, including several advertising companies such as Adjust and Google.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-12-26 |title=Trade Republic Version 4.2552.1 |url=https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/de/reports/de.traderepublic.app/latest/ |access-date=2026-01-01 |website=Exodus Privacy Project}}</ref> This is at odds with the German principle of [[wikipedia:Bank_secrecy|''Bankgeheimnis'' (banking confidentiality)]], the notion that banks have the duty to protect the information of their customers except where required by anti-fraud legislation. | The Exodus Privacy Project lists a total of 7 trackers inside of the app, including several advertising companies such as Adjust and Google.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-12-26 |title=Trade Republic Version 4.2552.1 |url=https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/de/reports/de.traderepublic.app/latest/ |access-date=2026-01-01 |website=Exodus Privacy Project}}</ref> This is at odds with the German principle of [[wikipedia:Bank_secrecy|''Bankgeheimnis'' (banking confidentiality)]], the notion that banks have the duty to protect the information of their customers except where required by anti-fraud legislation. | ||
===Forced app=== | ===Forced app=== | ||