Interviews with Experts


Scott Shipman - Privacy Interview

Where Did Due Process Go? Government Access to Personal Information in the Cloud
February 2010

Scott Shipman
Global Privacy Leader
eBay Inc.

As a leading company fueling the global online economy, what are your challenges in managing the personal information tied to these international transactions?

Managing eBay Inc.'s personal information globally is an exciting challenge, but daunting at the same time given our global footprint and the total number of customers worldwide. The primary challenge is to ensure that eBay companies use customer information exactly as the customer expects eBay to use that information. As you can imagine, customer expectations vary widely across the globe.

Other topics of interest in this interview include:

  • Accommodating laws of multiple jurisdictions
  • Government requests for seller information
  • Issues in providing information to governments
  • Consequences for data subjects as buyers and sellers

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