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E-bay - Big Brother is watching you - and documenting
Posted by Nimrod Kozlovski on Thursday, February 20 @ 00:15:18 EST Privacy

E-Bay, ever anxious to up profits, bends over backward to provide data to law enforcement officials”.

The Israeli paper Haaretz picked up Lawmeme’s exclusive story about E-bay’s law enforcement initiative. Haarezt published a cover-story on E-bay’s privacy policy and questioned the legality and constitutionality of the “consent” clause in e-bay’s users agreement. Relying on  this clause, E-bay shares sensitive information about its customers with the law enforcement authorities without asking for subpoena. Read more on how a de-facto monopoly exploits his position in the marketplace to impose an intrusive privacy policy. (Haaretz)

 
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Re: E-bay - Big Brother is watching you - and documenting (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, February 20 @ 18:03:42 EST
Hey, wazzup with the font change here?

I read Lawmeme for style, not substance, after all...


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