The following was posted to the eBay Announcement Board earlier this afternoon. I wanted to share with Ink readers. Will share more as I get it. Cheers, RBH The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a consumer alert about Alli, a weight loss drug currently found on multiple websites and search engines. eBay works…

While I was attending the PayPal X conference in SF last week, eBay enjoyed a fairly significant achievement over in Europe. Specifically, 14 EU data protection authorities approved eBay’s privacy standards and procedures. In a nutshell, as of last Thursday, Luxembourg’s National Data Protection Commission (CNPD) has formally approved eBay’s binding corporate rules (BCRs) for…

eBay announced back in April that it planned to separate Skype from the company with anticipation of an IPO in 2010. A lot can happen in a few months. According to a press release issued by eBay this morning, an investor group led by Silver Lake, that includes Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada…

Yesterday, two auctions that were unusual enough to capture the attention of national and international media came to a close. On the surface, it was just a normal Tuesday in the eBay Marketplace.

An updated eBay User Agreement was posted earlier today in order to help implement the policy changes announced in the Seller Release details last month. The update is an extension of the changes announced back in May of this year. From the AB post: The biggest change to the agreement supports the new on-eBay resolution…

Hi everyone, As a former law enforcement officer this kind of fraud really makes me cringe because it could have been easily avoided! Recently we learned about a woman who was victimized by a fraudster because she didn’t realize that there is no relationship between Craigslist and eBay postings, and did not follow eBay’s general…

Hi Everyone, It has become increasingly important to protect your computer against exploits and viruses by regularly updating your browser and operating system. Yesterday, Microsoft released the latest critical patch for a recently detected vulnerability, that allows unsafe web pages to insert malware onto your computer. This can wreak havoc by stealing user names, passwords…

Privacy and information management research firm Ponemon Institute along with Internet privacy leader TRUSTe, have announced the results of their fifth annual survey of Most Trusted Companies for Privacy** and eBay is ranked second overall, behind only American Express (#1 for the fourth year in a row) and ranked first among Internet companies. The study…

It’s no secret that I’ve made online trust & safety a key topic of discussion here on Ink recently going so far as to enlist the contributions of eBay’s Online Safety Advisor, Rich LaMagna, to weigh in from time to time on policies and best practices. With that in mind, when I learned that we…

Hi Everyone, As we continue in the online services industry to improve our tools and technology designed to create a safer online experience, eBay has been working with industry partners such as Internet Explorer and Firefox3 to identify phishing and other potentially risky sites. Although we originally developed filtering technology for the Account Guard feature…