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== Privacy == | |||
In 2018, the introduction of the DGPR in Europe forced PayPal to disclose a list of third party companies they share user data with. The sheer endless list includes over 600 different companies, from fraud prevention to analytics, tracking and advertising companies.<ref>https://www.paypal.com/ie/legalhub/paypal/third-parties-list</ref> | |||
== Alternatives == | |||
Unfortunately, no truly privacy friendly digital payment systems are in wide-spread use at the time of writing. | |||
The [https://www.taler.net/ GNU Taler] project is a very promising very recent option that allows for completely anonymous purchases while still relying on common currencies and preventing money laundering and tax fraud. However, it is currently only available in certain test regions. | |||
Of the more universally available commercial payment methods, [https://apple.com/apple-pay Apple Pay] is among the most private, but requires the user to own an Apple device and to trust Apple Inc not to collect more data than they disclose. | |||
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