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PayPal Demands That Seafile Monitors Customer Traffic (seafile.de)
4 points by GordonS on June 20, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



"From tomorrow, Sunday June 19th 2016 we are no longer allowed to accept payments via PayPal. PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as all our customers’ files for illegal content. They have also asked us to provide them with detailed statistics about the files types of our customers sync and share on https://app.seafile.de

Since complying with this demand would violate German / European data protection laws (and also be morally wrong in our opinion) we have declined to comply with this demand."

Interesting that they believe EU laws mean they couldn't legally comply with this demand even if they wanted to - is that right?




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