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This provision establishes the operational framework under which PayPal deploys algorithmic assessment systems for account and transaction evaluation. The authorization permits profiling analysis that goes beyond submitted information to infer economic status, reliability, and behavioral patterns as part of risk management procedures.
Users' accounts and transactions are subject to automated assessment through profiling techniques that evaluate financial risk indicators and behavioral patterns. The terms authorize PayPal to make determinations about creditworthiness, fraud risk, and identity consistency based on algorithmic analysis of personal data.
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"PayPal uses Automated Decision Making technology to make assessments or decisions, including related to risk, fraud and creditworthiness, where permitted and in accordance with applicable law. Our Automated Decision Making technology may use profiling techniques to evaluate personal aspects about you, including to analyze or predict your economic situation, reliability and/or behavior. This enables us to assess, for example, whether you display traits indicating possible credit or financial risk, money laundering or fraudulent activity, that are inconsistent with any submissions you have made to us, or that suggest you have hidden your real identity.— Excerpt from PayPal's PayPal Privacy Statement
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This provision establishes the operational framework under which PayPal deploys algorithmic assessment systems for account and transaction evaluation. The authorization permits profiling analysis that goes beyond submitted information to infer economic status, reliability, and behavioral patterns as part of risk management procedures.
Users' accounts and transactions are subject to automated assessment through profiling techniques that evaluate financial risk indicators and behavioral patterns. The terms authorize PayPal to make determinations about creditworthiness, fraud risk, and identity consistency based on algorithmic analysis of personal data.
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