And we all thought it was the government who was going to keep tabs on us in this new world
Or sell out our information. (Hey some states actually do that in the us)
Of course ebay states:
Your privacy is very important to us. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
Then way down in the FINE PRINT they state:
We aggregate (gather up data across all user accounts) personal information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as your name, email address, password, credit card number, and bank account number, are not disclosed to these third parties in a
personally identifiable manner without your explicit consent.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/priv...ame=f:f:US
I was in a heated discussion over this several months ago at another forum.
I had created and second e mail address via my ISP to use at feebays forums.
(Only got to use it one night and it was pink slapped into suspension) LOL.
Anyway there are only THREE intities that have that e mail address and that I know for a fact.
eBay had it, my ISP had it and I had it.
I get more spam on that account (mostly phishing pp or ebay emails) than all my other e mail accounts combined.
Hmm wonder who ebay sold this email address to? Was my thinking and stance.
Now with Skype, Im so sure the users are going to love getting all that unsolicited junk voice commo.
NOT.
And dont get me started on the constitutionality of ebay giving personal info to law enforcement and government with-out say a warrant or Subpena.