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Shopping for privacy: Purchase details leaked to PayPal

Sören Preibusch
Sören Preibusch
Thomas Peetz
Thomas Peetz
Gunes Acar
Gunes Acar
Bettina Berendt
Bettina Berendt

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, pp. 52-64, 2016.

Cited by: 10|Bibtex|Views8|DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2015.11.004
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Keywords:
PrivacyOnline paymentsPayment providersPayPalTrackingMore(4+)

Abstract:

•First industry-wide field experiment on data sharing practices at the most popular 881 US online merchants.•More than half of all merchants unnecessarily share purchase details with PayPal.•Data leakage to PayPal includes details of medication or sex toys.•Consumers cannot opt-out or self-protect against this data proliferation.

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