Have Paypal changed your anti-spam preferences?

angelavdavis

Just so you know, BBC breakfast were doing an online security piece the other morning and I emailed and forwarded a link to this thread to Susannah Streeter, who is the reporter covering this piece and she responded that she would speak to her features editor and investigate further.

So, you never know, this might happen yet!

goshdarnit

asea wrote: »

if they operate over here aren't they subject to our laws?

According to this https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR...B_en_GB/ua.pdf

"14.3 Governing Law and Jurisdiction. This Agreement and the relationship
between us shall be governed by English law. For complaints that cannot be
resolved otherwise, you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the provision of our Services without prejudice to your right to also initiate a proceeding against PayPal in that context before the competent courts of and in Luxembourg."

The user agreement claims to be under English law, but you can also take the case to Luxembourg as well if you wish.

Now, as this relates to Data Protection, and Paypal are a Luxembourg company, this would still mean that the Information Commissioner is the guy to complain to.

goshdarnit

Got this from paypal today

"You recently made a complaint to PayPal regarding Fraud Spoof and one of our Executive Escalations team members issued a final response to you on 07/19/2007."

Good to see they don't understand the initial complaint, and note my responses that its not fraud spoof.
My reply will probable be processed as 'very happy customer'.
Hope the information commissioner' nails them.

dannahaz

Thanks for raising this, mine was also set.

t is not going to be hackers, it's not goint to be Paypal manually going into everyones accounts. It's most likely to have been a generic change, with that being a new option with the default was to have that option ticked.

I expect that anyone setting up an account now would see that option and would untick it.

I'm not saying that what Paypal has done is morally right, it isn't.