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In the EU this kind of automatic opting-in to marketing/data sharing is against the GDPR as it requires explicit consent from user/customer. I'm in the EU and have those settings but they were both toggled off, as expected.
UK here and they are turned on.
Thanks a lot, Brexit :(
they are turned on
Ooh, violate my privacy, daddy.
Even if the UK is not in the EU the GDPR still applies there, just the version it got while it was in the EU tho, no revisions
Spain here, and both were turned on by default. Had to deactivate.
Same in Germany
Just checked it on three different accounts (germany) and each one had those two options turned on.
Mine was already opted-out.
Ireland here, so EU, and both were turned on.
Is your account location set in GB?
Mine is in Germany and opted out. But I think remembering that there was already a post quite some time ago about the same thing.
Address is Ireland. No location set in the location section (under name in profile section), but my address is clearly set.
Also based in the EU, and mine were turned on
What if I told you this option doesn't actually get respected?
Then, hopefully, PayPal can look forward to spending at the very least 2% of their worldwide revenue to pay fines.
Remember, you may not see this at all if you're based in a country that doesn't allow it.
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Ah so now they're a poor steward of my data as well as my money?
Yea, paypal is bad news all around
I guess most people don't know most banks have electronic funds transfer, or virtual credit cards, etc.
So many places online don't accept any form of payment except PayPal.
I know about all of those. But so many websites only accept PayPal - especially small businesses. There's a bunch of regulatory hurdles a website doesn't have to worry about if they just have PayPal take care of everything related to payment.
Paypal needs to be deleted
I can't believe we don't have anything to actually compete with it
Just disabled. Thanks for the heads up.
In the app, under Data and Privacy:
Let us share products, offers and rewards you might like to help stores personalize your shopping.
This sentence is a masterpiece of omission.
Yep, they turned it on by default. It looks like you have until Nov 27th to turn it off before they share your data.
They also like to just hold onto large chunks of money arbitrarily.
Oh, you're going to take it up with customer support?
Lololol.
Cool, they banned my account some years ago and nothing of value was lost. And I don't think I even did anything to violate their rules, I only used it to pay rent for a few years and a handful of eBay purchases. My best guess is that someone "hacked" my account (my PW was pretty bad and in multiple breaches), but I tried logging in after years of not using it and couldn't do anything with it.
But yeah, nothing of value was lost. I haven't needed PayPal for years and don't need it now. Just say no and pay directly on whatever site you're buying at. I've bought tons of stuff from eBay and other online sites for years and it has never been an issue.
So screw 'em, just don't use their service.
I don't even see this option on my account. Old Canadian account, but my phone/Paypal app is EU.
Nor I, on my in-Canada account. Desktop access only; I don't have the Paypal app installed on my phone.
The article's image shows, under Manage your privacy settings, the options:
Permissions you've given
Interest-based marketing (which is the option pertinent to this issue)
Blocked contacts
But my account's options are:
Permissions you've given
Manage your cookies
Blocked contacts
Possibly the Marketing checkbox is the Canadian version of this? I've got that checkbox turned off.
Same account options as yours here on mobile, marketing is also off for me.
Thanks for comparing notes!
Dunno if they re-did something because I remember a post about something something paypal and privacy. Looked at it right now and it was already disabled
Maybe it's by default opt-out for EU-members?
Location: Germany (EU)
Confirmed this was enabled in my account. Fuckers. Also check out your search privacy settings in your PayPal account too. Also sharing info by default.
Glad I deleted PayPal ages ago.
Thanks, disabled. If they want this kind of info then give users a reward for it like 1-2% cashback or coupons. This is just greedy.
They can't give a reward for a "oh shit we're running out of hedge fund money, we need to stay solvent , let's sell out our user's data"
Good post. Just turned it off. I appreciate the heads up.
Mine was off, don't know if it's because I'm in California, but I toggled it back and forth to check and left it off.
I'm also in California at the moment and it was toggled on. Is it based on current location or the location when you made the account?
