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The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With

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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. Here’s a good visualization of that data.

Is 600 companies unusual? Is it more than average? Less? We’ll soon know.

Tags: data collection, EU, PayPal, privacy

Posted on March 14, 2018 at 6:24 AM42 Comments

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