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[FYI] eBay to Law Enforcement - We're Here to Help
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eBay to Law Enforcement - We're Here to Help
Posted by Ernest Miller
on Monday, February 17 @ 10:09:15 EST
With Nimrod Kozlovski
Joseph E. Sullivan, Director of Compliance and Law Enforcement
Relations, Senior Counsel, Trust and Safety for online auction
powerhouse eBay, recently addressed a group of law enforcement
officials regarding eBay's policies for cooperating with government
investigations. Below are verbatim quotations from his briefing at
the recent CyberCrime 2003 conference:
We [eBay] try to make rules to make it difficult for people to commit
fraud and easy for you [law enforcement agencies] to investigate. One
is our Privacy policy. I know from investigating eBay fraud cases
that eBay has probably the most generous policy of any internet
company when it comes to sharing information. [emphasis added]
We do not require a subpoena except for very limited circumstances.
We require a subpoena when we need the financial information from the
site, credit card info or sometimes IP information.
In other words, without a subpoena, eBay will provide all sorts of
information to any law enforcement agency for any reason whatsoever.
For more about eBay's law enforcement-friendly policy, read on.
Without a subpoena, eBay will provide the following information
regarding an eBay user to law enforcement:
Full Name, User ID, Email Address, Street Address, State, City, Zip
Code, Phone Number, Country, Company, Password, Secondary Phone,
Gender, Personal or Business, Shipping information (Name, Street
Address, City, State, Zip)
In addition eBay will provide the following transaction information:
Bidding History on an Item, Other Items for Sale, Feedback about a
user, Bidding history of a user, Prices paid for items, Feedback
rating, and Chat Room/Bulletin Board (!).
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