[CharlesColeman]

>> Paypal provides an effective dispute resolution process and enables customers to pay for stuff by explicitly authorizing a payment and without giving away their payment info to unknown third-parties.

> I once saw a pdf which listed all the third parties that PayPal shares its information with. It was more than 30 pages.

What kind of info do they share with those third parties?

I think the GP's point stands, since the "unknown third-part[y]" that customers are usually most concerned about is the merchant, which Paypal definitely doesn't share payment info with (like CC numbers).

[n_ary]

Offtopic: PayPal shares more than we think it does. I've had issues where certain merchants asked me to confirm identity by sending copy of utility bill for address I had on PayPal account. I thought my address is private so sent a bill for my siblings house where I also paid the bills for internet, but they reported that address is not same with PayPal, so I argued a bit but eventually had to send one for correct address. I think that, PayPal doesn't share CVV but merchants can view all personal info attached to my PayPal account.

[CharlesColeman]

That doesn't seem too weird to me. Wouldn't most merchants necessarily have your address in order to provide services to you (shipping would definitely require it, for instance).

[Iggy173]

In the interest of giving PayPal some potential benefit of doubt, it could be that they're simply returns a match/no-match on the address as a fraud-reduction step or something.