Stripe CEO Patrick Collison insists his company’s collection of e-commerce customers’ site interactions, mouse metrics, and identifiers is solely for fighting fraud – though he allows that the payment platform’s disclosure could be better. On Tuesday, developer Michael Lynch questioned Stripe’s data collection in a blog post, noting that the biz’s JavaScript library, used by web merchants to implement client-side aspects of Stripe’s payment system, records browsing activity and reports the data back to the company.

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