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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brett_in_Sacto, post: 2369478, member: 71510&quot;]100% correct.&nbsp; Wife won an ebay auction on ebay&#039;s site.&nbsp; Regardless of seller, that was a disparate transaction.&nbsp; They &quot;magically&quot; linked to my personal account on HA without authorization or confirmation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Was it correct data correlation?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Had this been another site practicing in this?&nbsp; Different results.</p><p><br /></p><p>If my wife was buying something and didn&#039;t want me to know - now I know.&nbsp; (Birthday present, secret stash, whatever it was).&nbsp; Her privacy was violated without explicit consent to link the accounts.</p><p><br /></p><p>If this had been another business in another line of work - correlating a purchase would violate privacy of ebay&#039;s information.</p><p><br /></p><p>Linking accounts involved in financial transactions without express written consent is ethically wrong.&nbsp; There was zero relation between HA and Ebay accounts - and there was little - if any - validity to link the two other than a common last name.</p><p><br /></p><p>For anyone named Smith, Jones, Martinez, etc....&nbsp; This should be a giant red flag.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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