[IP] I will start using my Visa card more

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:43:42 -0800
From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann@CSL.sri.com>
Subject: Visa moves to improve customers' privacy

Visa International (with over 1 billion credit cards in circulation) is
introducing a new company policy today prohibiting the display of all but
the last four digits of a credit-card number on consumer receipts, a move
intended to better protect customers' privacy and reduce identity theft.
The policy will also remove the expiration date from receipts.  The newly
proposed Senate Identity Theft Protection Act would make this policy
mandatory for all credit-card companies.  (Since 2000, identity theft has
consistently been the most common complaint to the Federal Trade Commission,
with over 160,000 complaints in 2002.)  [Source: Chris Baker, *The
Washington Times*, 6 Mar 2003; PGN-ed]
  http://washingtontimes.com/business/20030306-3647521.htm

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