I'm not involved in with type of law enforcement except for the last time I got pulled over - I was intensely involved then for a couple of hours.
I'm not trying to scare anyone either, but it is important to be informed. I had posted earlier this year about FINCEN and how large their tentacles are. FINCEN is what the feds are using to track the money trail left by the terrorists. I should have posted what it stood for again - Thanks to Natural Selection.
Here are excerpts from Paypal's site concerning security and privacy issues:
"If you enroll in the optional sweep of your funds into the PayPal Money Market Reserve Fund, we are required to collect your Social Security Number (?SSN?) or other Taxpayer Identification Number (?TIN?). In order to comply with the Bank Secrecy Act, we will also require your SSN or TIN if you send or receive certain high-value transactions through PayPal."
"We also collect the Internet address (IP address) of the computer or device you use to access your PayPal account, in order to help detect possible instances of unauthorized transactions."
"Because of the way that World Wide Web communication standards work, when you arrive at or leave the PayPal Web site, we automatically receive the Web address of the site that you came from or are going to."
"We disclose information that we in good faith believe is appropriate to cooperate in investigations of fraud or other illegal activity, or to conduct investigations of violations of our Terms of Use."
"We disclose information in response to a subpoena, warrant, court order, levy, attachment, order of a court-appointed receiver or other comparable legal process, including subpoenas from private parties in a civil action. "
"With respect to our privacy practices as a financial institution and our compliance with this Privacy Policy, PayPal is regulated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). You can obtain information about the FTC at
http://www.ftc.gov. "
So, you guys make your own decisions about what information Paypal provides to the feds.
