SECUR> Big Brother is watching you - and documenting
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- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:21:21 -0600
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Big Brother is watching you - and documenting
eBay, ever anxious to up profits, bends over backward to provide data to
law enforcement officials
By Yuval Dror
from the Israeli paper Ha'aretz 2/20/02
<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=264863&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=264863>
"I don't know another Web site that has a privacy policy as flexible as
eBay's," says Joseph Sullivan. A little bit later, Sullivan explains what
he means by the term "flexible." Sullivan is director of the "law
enforcement and compliance" department at eBay.com, the largest retailer in
the world.
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Sullivan was speaking to senior representatives of numerous law-enforcement
agencies in the United States on the occasion of "Cyber Crime 2003," a
conference that was held last week in Connecticut. His lecture was closed
to reporters, and for good reason. Haaretz has obtained a recording of the
lecture, in which Sullivan tells the audience that eBay is willing to hand
over everything it knows about visitors to its Web site that might be of
interest to an investigator. All they have to do is ask. "There's no need
for a court order," Sullivan said, and related how the company has half a
dozen investigators under contract, who scrutinize "suspicious users" and
"suspicious behavior." The spirit of cooperation is a function of the
patriotism that has surged in the wake of September 11.
eBay is the world's largest auction site. Some 62 million registered users
buy and sell a variety of merchandise through the site, which charges
commissions for every item sold. Sullivan claims that 150,000 Internet
users earn their livelihood from the site, some having left their old jobs
to become buyers or sellers on eBay.
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