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Originally posted by Azimaith:
you know thats a ridiculous proposistion, maybe your an Ebay scammer. This is just about the Ebay privacy policy. When you sign up for Ebay you will have to sign a TOSA or Terms of Service Agreement or something like this, if you don't read it, too bad.
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It's not ridicullous. If you were paying attention to the arcticle, they said ebay bought/is buying half.com and paypal.
They said they are keeping tab of every transactions, comments, and bid you make. They can know
everything you bought from ebay half.com or paypal. They also have assess to all your personal information, including your bank account and credit card number, your adress, and your phone number, among other things.
They know everything you might have bought using these services. Be it cards, books, music ,pornography or goods. They have all the info on you. By looking at your purchasing habbit they can learn a lot, from your political and religious position to your sexual preference. Did you buy a book on communism from a class research project? Congratulation, you might be on some list right now. You better watch out what music you buy, too.
What's worse is that they are giving this info away freely to anyone who ask. Do you really think all cops are honest?
I know a guy who played Asheron's Call (a mmorpg) on a non-pk server. One day a cop stoped his car for a broken light. The guy was wearing an Asheron's Call t-shirt, and the cop played, too, so they started talking. The guy said he played on a non-pk server. Well... guess what. The cop was a pker, so he arested the guy for speeding, resisting arrestation, and other things like that, just because he didn'tlike non-pk. The truth was found out and the cop was suspended, but think of all the harm he did for no reason.
There are a lot of people like that. All your personal information can be used for lots of things, including fraud.