eBay
$1.7 trillion spending bill requires platforms to verify ID of those earning $5,000 revenue per year
And collect sellers’ other sensitive data including bank account details and tax ID.
eBay says it will let governments automatically remove listings
New levels of censorship control.
eBay bans listings of some used Dr. Seuss books
Digital book burning.
eBay bans sellers from listing face masks and sanitizer gel
eBay says it’s to prevent price gouging.
eBay censors and deletes listings of t-shirts about coronavirus
Apparently, it’s against their “Disaster and Tragedy Policy,”
More reports suggest Google lied when it told congress it doesn’t have manual blacklists
The WSJ suggests Google is lying, something many have assumed for a long time.
eBay is investigating why its logo turned into a photo of a topless woman
The circumstances under which the mistake happened would still not go a long way towards explaining why the image was stored on eBay’s – or Microsoft’s – computers in the first place.
PayPal now wants sellers to pay a fee, even if the transaction gets refunded
PayPal has said that anyone who disagrees with any of their new terms is free to close their account.