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The title on the PayPal list itself reads "List of Third Parties (other than PayPal Customers) with Whom Personal Information May be Shared."

If that's true, this is just the "worst case" scenario - you are very unlikely to hit any significant fraction of these companies for any single given transaction.

Or so I hope.

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The overwhelming majority likely never get anybodies info. These lists have to be extensive, and for the "marketing" category the data is almost assuredly anonymous. But to avoid hefty lawsuits, companies choose to list any company that might accidentally get a CC they aren't supposed to.

Dear customer, we may betray you in some of these 600 ways. This is just the "worst case" scenario. You are very unlikely to hit any significant fraction of these posibilities for any single given Transaction. At least we hope so.

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