Ebay using Personal Data to train AI - Privacy Policy

[moonlight-rhapsody]

Ebay updated their Privacy Policy on 21st April.  Our friends in Germany have picked up that Ebay is now using our personal data to train their AI programs, and the German data protection regulatory body has objected on the following grounds.

"It is currently not sufficiently clear which personal data of users will be used. The exact purposes of the intended AI training remain unclear, as does the question of who is allowed to use the data.

Furthermore, there is a lack of information about which AI models will be used. In our opinion, the requirements for transparency regarding the planned data processing have not yet been sufficiently met."

Souce article 

Buried in the depths of ebay’s Privacy Policy is the ability to opt out of allowing ebay to use our personal data to train its AI programs.   http://accountsettings.ebay.co.uk/ai-preferences

The personal data that ebay collects can be seen at Sections 4.1 - 4.5, Privacy Policy 

I’ve looked back at the email ebay sent on 19 March about the Privacy Policy update.  Although it mentions that there is a new section on AI, it does not tell you that you can opt out or provide a link to the appropriate button.  Nor is it easy to find the opt-out button when you click the link provided in the email.  This seems to me to be more than a little remiss on ebay's part.

[2012bespoke]

Great piece of information thank you 

[eastern-lights]

How will we know that the opt out switch actually has any effect?

(What? Me a cynic?)

[sunflowers4me59]

I also thought that, we won't know if they ignore it.

[moonlight-rhapsody]

"How will we know that the opt out switch actually has any effect?  (What? Me a cynic?)"

It's a good question.  I guess we have to trust them.... 🤔

[lucy_farmer]

'How will we know that the opt out switch actually has any effect?  (What? Me a cynic?)"

It's a good question.  I guess we have to trust them..'

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Hmmm.. yeah.

 A bit like the trusted common-sense statement 10 or 15 years ago, that "if the camera light is off  on your lap-top, that means the camera is off  as well"

Then the photos came out showing tech bros with small bits of paper stuck over the camera position on their own computers........ now why would they do that I wonder?

[theelench]

It was quite an eye-opener when someone on another thread told me what info. ebay had collected and shown under our Forum user-name profile.  How many threads I've read, how many minutes I've spent on the forums.  What else are they collecting and why ?

Trust them ?

As Arthur Daley once said "They'd sell their grannies ears as ashtrays if some offered them the right price."