All I ever use Paypal for is send money and receive money in a safe way. They say if I don't give them all this information that they will curtail some of my use of Paypal. If they stop what I am doing in the little that I'm doing, I see no reason to have an account. Governments are getting too nosey in the affairs of average citizens. Where I bank, they tell me if I deposit or with draw $10,000.00 (does not happen too often) that the bank must report that action to the government so the government can question why or what it was all about. Freedom, there is no freedom, slowly but surely we are being spied on in many ways we don't even realize. In communist countries this is how they keep track of their citizens in every move they make and know their where about at all time.