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The disclosure is specifically tied to EU payment services for sellers, meaning this sharing obligation is contextually scoped rather than universal across all eBay users.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is fragmentary; the precise conditions and legal bases triggering disclosure to these bodies are not fully captured in the provided text. The EU payment services scoping is taken from the excerpt as written but surrounding context may add further conditions not visible here.
Sellers using eBay's EU payment services should expect that their personal data may be disclosed to a range of governmental and law enforcement bodies.
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The disclosure is specifically tied to EU payment services for sellers, meaning this sharing obligation is contextually scoped rather than universal across all eBay users.
Sellers using eBay's EU payment services should expect that their personal data may be disclosed to a range of governmental and law enforcement bodies.
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