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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.