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

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.

Comments

Re:Not that shocking

[houghi]

I work in the financial industry in Brussels, Belgium and we do not share customer information with banks or anybody else.

e.g. you go into a store and open a credit to buy a TV. The person working for Seller will put in the data on our platform.No sharing of personal data is going on.

With another partner, we had to make a secondary company where we BOTH where partners, just so we could share the data.

The third parties we work together with will get very limited data. Basically just a name, address and phone number and they better not do anything else with it, or else. Yes, that is marketing.

Sharing it with 600 companies? Seems extremely high to me. Especially for a financial company. What they need to share is very well regulated up to the wazoo. Stricter regulations are coming. (I believe in May) and they will overturn the current Belgian law and turn it into a European law.

Seriously, 600 is a shitload. We deal with plenty more companies and we have about 4 we share data with and that is strictly regulated.

Re:Let's stop calling it "sharing"

[Maritz]

Your ISPs are allowed to sell your browsing data, lol. I guess corrupt representation leads to that kind of situation.