eBay Provides No Privacy For Sellers

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 1, 2003 @05:06AM from the no-surprise-here dept.

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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Attention Identity Thieves! by gillbates · 2003-07-01 05:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Find your next victim on EBay! By simply posing as a law enforcement officer, you can have access to the personally identifying information of hundreds of people. All it takes is some forged letterhead and a fax machine....

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