[FYI] eBay to Feds: come and get what you want

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32936.html

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eBay to Feds: come and get what you want
By Andrew Orlowski
Posted: 19/09/2003 at 19:24 GMT

Israeli daily Haaretz has unearthed highly embarrassing, and 
disturbing comments by an eBay executive. To an audience of law 
enforcement officials, eBay's Joseph Sullivan boasts that his 
company's privacy policy is meaningless.  

"We don't make you show a subpoena, except in exceptional cases," 
Sullivan told a closed-door session at the CyberCrime 2003 conference 
last week.  

"When someone uses our site and clicks on the `I Agree' button, it is 
as if he agrees to let us submit all of his data to the legal 
authorities. Which means that if you are a law-enforcement officer, 
all you have to do is send us a fax with a request for information, 
and ask about the person behind the seller's identity number, and we 
will provide you with his name, address, sales history and other 
details - all without having to produce a court order. We want law 
enforcement people to spend time on our site."  

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