Beware your Paypal and Facebook accounts may be linked without your knowledge

[mark manley]

After deleting my Facebook account a couple of weeks ago I was surprised when I received an email today from Paypal telling me that my agreement with Facebook had been terminated. I first presumed that it was a phishing email trying to get me to log in and get my details but I checked my Paypal account, not using the link provided in the email and found yes the two were linked, something I was unaware of and had not authorised.
Further researched revealed that the two organisations decided on your behalf that the two should be linked and did so presumably burying your agreement somewhere in the small print of updated terms and conditions. I have no idea if this compromises the security of Paypal accounts in any way but either way highlights how tech companies operate without informing you in any meaningful way and reinforced my belief that dumping Facebook was a good move.