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Subject: Big Brother is watching you - and documenting
Big Brother is watching you - and documenting
By Yuval Dror
eBay, ever anxious to up profits, bends over backward to provide data
to law enforcement officials
"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.
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.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=264863