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Maik:

--- Quote ---PayPal has revealed that it shares users' data with more than 600 external companies.

The payments service has published the third parties it shares data with as part of a transparency drive in a move the company described as “very unusual” but an “important principle”.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/04/27/paypal-reveals-shares-customers-data-600-companies/


An important principle that, as Bruce Schneier earlier put it, is one of the effects of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation:


--- Quote ---The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With

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.
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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/the_600_compani.html

Unsurprisingly, among those on the list are Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple.
One that might be a surprise: Harrow Council

Paypal's List of Third Parties with Whom Personal Information May be Shared

BeeTee:

--- Quote from: Maik on Saturday, 28 April, 2018 @ 14:27:23 ---
--- Quote ---PayPal has revealed that it shares users' data with more than 600 external companies.

The payments service has published the third parties it shares data with as part of a transparency drive in a move the company described as “very unusual” but an “important principle”.
--- End quote ---
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/04/27/paypal-reveals-shares-customers-data-600-companies/


An important principle that, as Bruce Schneier earlier put it, is one of the effects of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation:


--- Quote ---The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With

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.
--- End quote ---
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/the_600_compani.html

Unsurprisingly, among those on the list are Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple.
One that might be a surprise: Harrow Council

Paypal's List of Third Parties with Whom Personal Information May be Shared

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Well, having a look at the third parties Paypal shares data with I think it would be a shorter list if it listed who they don't share with.

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