Ranj pointed out that the massive amounts of information available to LEOs through eBay, PayPal, and Half.com are also available to anyone with access to a law enforcement agency letterhead.
I wonder if eBay will become less forthcoming when the first stalker starts offing eBay customers based on eBay-provided information?
After all, what the marketers say is rarely the full picture.... I posted a link to this is a different forum with a lot of eBay users, and got a response from a police officer who's actually had cause to contact eBay regarding a few fraud cases. He says that, regardless of this report, "they DO require subpoenas and they DO verify who you are and what you're investigating!" Of course, that's also a slanted view (and his other comments made his opinion on matters of "liberal-leaning rights advocates" fairly clear what the slant was), but I suspect both views have some truth.
Still, the privacy policy itself is rather wide open on what they can release if they want to.
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Hear, hear.
Date: 2003-02-28 06:43 pm (UTC)I wonder if eBay will become less forthcoming when the first stalker starts offing eBay customers based on eBay-provided information?
Bastards.
I wonder how accurate that portrayal is....
Date: 2003-02-28 08:24 pm (UTC)Still, the privacy policy itself is rather wide open on what they can release if they want to.
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