Hello Monzo Team,
I have a question in regard to customer support and the in-app chat: how much access does your customer support have to my account? Do they see everything?
I do hope they only see parts of my account and they do not have access to everything. And if they do what is stopping them from using this information outside Monzo?
I am not sure what the issue is. Have you ever gone into a bank. The person on the otherside of the till has access to the whole of your account
(I am not sure what Monzo do or do not know though)
But the employee will be under a contract and I imagine the breach would be serious.
i.e. you could sue Monzo and Monzo would probably sue the employee who breached
From Monzo ( simonbMonzo COps Community Specialist )
" We have access to all the information on your account that youâve mentioned. Without that, weâd simply be unable to do our jobs.
Yes, we have access logs - we donât balance them against contact logs because not every check of an account happens in response to contact from the customer - there are all sorts of reasons why we might need to look into an account pro-actively, including financial crime reasons, people affected by fraud rings, people who might be identified as being affected by bugs, people who might have reached out via other third party means, ongoing issues that we need to check over time (not just as a one-off) etc.
Regarding privacy screens - COps within the office work in a secure area where visitors are not allowed. We have provided privacy screens for people who regularly work outside of the office. That said, if a random person were to see our screens, they wouldnât learn much without understanding our interfaces and what each area of our backend support UI represents. It takes quite a bit of training just to teach us what everything looks like and how everything works in relation to everything else, so if you hadnât gone through that you would quite frankly be quite lost! We have a strong culture of locking our screens whenever weâre away from our machines and if you leave your machine unlocked in the office and someone notices you will be made to purchase donuts for everyone as compensation 
I donât know the technical aspects of MDM but weâre able to remotely wipe a device should it get lost, for example.
Alerting the customer that their account has been viewed is not only a very bad idea, but itâs also illegal under âtipping offâ regulations. It is against the law to provide a user who is suspected to be engaging in financial crime with any reason to believe you might know about their activity, in any way shape or form. This obviously still applies even if there are false positives and it ultimately turns out there is no financial crime happening.
Ultimately it comes down to you trusting us as your financial provider, just as you would with any other bank or service. Getting a job at Monzo requires a high level of vetting and trust from the company to us as a member of staff, and part of that trust is to not do things that would in any way damage the company or itâs customers - I imagine this is a similar culture to Facebook or Google, who know much more about all of us than a financial company would!
Hopefully that answers all of your questions! "
I did not have any issue with this. I was just curious 
Thank you everyone for such a quick response 
Always good to be curious.
Glad we could help
The long quote above was by me, for the record, and all of it still applies (I canât exactly remember when I wrote it but probably at least a year ago)
Think it was from the thread I created years ago (linked above)
1 year and 3 months ago! 
