Shopping for privacy: Purchase details leaked to PayPal

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Highlights：

• First industry-wide field experiment on data sharing practices at the most popular 881 US online merchants.

• More than half of all merchants unnecessarily share purchase details with PayPal.

• Data leakage to PayPal includes details of medication or sex toys.

• Consumers cannot opt-out or self-protect against this data proliferation.

摘要

•First industry-wide field experiment on data sharing practices at the most popular 881 US online merchants.•More than half of all merchants unnecessarily share purchase details with PayPal.•Data leakage to PayPal includes details of medication or sex toys.•Consumers cannot opt-out or self-protect against this data proliferation.

论文关键词：Privacy,Online payments,Payment providers,PayPal,Tracking,Electronic commerce,Electronic retailing,Data minimisation,Data leakage

论文评审过程：Received 25 January 2015, Revised 1 November 2015, Accepted 23 November 2015, Available online 7 December 2015, Version of Record 11 January 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2015.11.004