Amazon and PayPal - Law Enforcement

[American Psycho]

I had some time recently to have a more thorough review of the latest privacy policies on Amazon and PayPal. All things considered it does seem Amazon has your back more when it comes to privacy and non disclosure of account information.

In the UK and EU, there is an option to request Amazon and PayPal to close your account and delete your information and it seems they do comply with this. There's no such feature in the US.

It seems PayPal pretty much has an open door to law enforcement (worldwide) and they give out everything to law enforcement even without a subpoena.

Amazon has a very different policy. It seems they mostly only disclose in response to subpoenas and search warrants, and even then they try to defend against anything they don't agree with.
You can see they publish the request and disclosures here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...SDRGWQ2C2CRYEF
Content data requests almost never get disclosed, whereas non-content data is released in about a third of cases.

One thing I have to say is there are countless examples of people being prosecuted for frauds on PayPal. But I can scarcely find a few examples of prosecutions supported by Amazon.

Does Amazon just not come to testify in criminal cases?

[Modee]

Why do you feel that PayPal gives out info without a search warrant or subpoena? I have documents that establish exactly what PayPal retains and what it releases. I will not disclose any of that publicly, but privately via tech support I have helped different clients with understanding exactly what AMZN, PP and eBay retain and disclose, and when, and why.

[American Psycho]

Why do you feel that PayPal gives out info without a search warrant or subpoena? I have documents that establish exactly what PayPal retains and what it releases. I will not disclose any of that publicly, but privately via tech support I have helped different clients with understanding exactly what AMZN, PP and eBay retain and disclose, and when, and why.

Because PayPal has an arm called PayPal Global Asset Protection, once a law enforcement user is established they can pretty much get full feed access to accounts under investigation. It's clearly listed here what PayPal/eBay retain and release: https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/s...g_airforce.pdf

My point is AMAZON seems to be a lot less cooperative and looks after your privacy more, which is in many respects surprising.

[Modee]

That’s not quite the way it works but you’d need tech support to augment your imperfect knowledge of this matter.