So I see so many replies by sheep (or perhaps ebay shills and fanboys?) that have the tone of "oh they have told you about this long ago", or "It's just your SSN, or any of your other private data" (who cares right?), as well as trying to imply that disagreeing with this practice is for some reason due to malicious intentions...
Some of these people have to educate themselves about online privacy. Yes, corporations don't like the idea that people want to keep it, but they are not goint to be dictating my life.
How about this: I have been an ebay and paypal user for over a decade and while by far it not being ideal, I have always enjoyed paypal being an intermediary for most of my online selling and buying experience.
I, for one HATE sharing all my personal info with any corporate entity that desires to implement a new policy asking me to do so, as maybe some people are blind and oblivions, but this opens up ways for these corporations to abuse and coerce you to abide by whatever terms they decide to impose, and I am not even talking about hacking and identity theft issues.
being based in Canada (mistakenly creating a .ca account back in the day) and selling exclusively on ebay.com, I'll be looking at any available option for me to keep that at bay and not have any direct interaction with my bank account. perhaps a new one would have to be created for this purpuse, or any other action that will limit ebay or anyone else from having their way. I do not care if other corporations are doing that, it doesn't mean I have to accept that.
Learn to stand up against things that are being done against you.
