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The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With (schneier.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the behind-the-scenes dept.

AmiMoJo shares a report from Schneier on Security: One of the effects of GDPR -- the new EU General Data Protection Regulation -- is that we're all going to be learning a lot more about who collects our data and what they do with it. Consider PayPal, that just released a list of over 600 companies they share customer data with. Here's a good visualization of that data. Is 600 companies unusual? Is it more than average? Less? We'll soon know.

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  1. Re:PayPal not such a concern by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    eBay no longer forces you to use PayPal. They did back when they owned PayPal, but that doesn't really count because any data that PayPal had, eBay also had.

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  2. Let's stop calling it "sharing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Sharing" is a friendly gesture and a positive thing. This is neither friendly nor positive -- it's an act of pure greed. What these companies are doing is selling your personal data, not "sharing" it.

  3. I had a PayPal account briefly, by jenningsthecat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    back when they first started. They were such assholes that I've only used them once or twice since. And even then, it was only their credit card processing service that I used, and only because I really, really wanted to donate money and that was the only way to do it. In the meantime there have been lots of musical artists, software authors, etc. that I wanted to give some money to - but not badly enough to suck it up and support a company that I'd like to see die. As for making purchases, if PayPal is the only way to pay, then I simply don't buy. I've made special arrangements to do Interac transfers, both to make a point with a vendor, and as a 'fuck you' to PP. As for an actual PayPal account with my money in it? I wouldn't be caught dead with one of those. PayPal is utterly evil, and I'm glad that the choice to never support them in any way is a viable one. Now if only I found it viable to make the same choice with Google...

    I'd like to hope that this latest report about PayPal will hurt their business. Sadly, I don't think it will.

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