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Old 05-26-2007, 02:11 PM  
CWeb
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Originally Posted by DamageX View Post
What you don't show any evidence of realizing is that PayPal Europe is for EUROPEANS. Which means the US government has ZERO jurisdiction to request info on ANY of the clients of PayPal Europe. The most they can do is petition local governments to request that info, using a court order, and cross their fingers that they'll find it fishy enough to share it. This doesn't even have anything to do with PayPal relocating their European division to Luxembourg, this is the reality TODAY. PayPal account holders residing in the USA are subject to US laws. Others aren't.
That is back to jurisdictional stuff again Damage - and you are correct. Basically PayPal Europe (or whatever their corp is called) is a legal entity operating under whatever Euro country laws and presumably dealing with EU clients.

And.. as you said, same with US clients under US laws.
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