eBay Provides No Privacy For Sellers

Phanatic1a writes "Quoted in an article in The Nation, eBay's chief of security Joseph Sullivan brags up eBay's "flexible" privacy policy to LEOs, telling them "If you are a law-enforcement officer, all you have to do is send us a fax with a request for information, and ask about the person behind the seller's identity number, and we will provide you with his name, address, sales history and other details--all without having to produce a court order." The tens of millions of Paypal customers eBay has access to the financial records of might be curious to see what else Sullivan promises..."

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[syberanarchy]

You know, I dated a cop's stepdaughter, and the chick got really fucked up. Not because of me, mind you, it was because of her mother being a drunky bitch. Of course, they blame me, since it's much easier to blame an outside influence than your inadequate parenting. You mean to tell me that if this guy wanted to be an ass, he could call up my purchasing/selling habits? Wow...

Aren't there fucking laws against this sort of thing?

Dupe

[Bob Cat - NYMPHS]

At least it's been months, not hours.

glad it's newsworthy now

[jcphil]

I submitted this story back in February and it got rejected then. What changed?

With a name like Nimrod, it has to be good!

[hesiod]

> "cooperation with government was seen as a betrayal of the unwritten contract between the user and service provider," says Nimrod Kozlovski

Nimrod. Yeah, I'll take the advice of a guy named Nimrod.