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Message-ID: <3F17F5BC.8010809@email.unc.edu>
From: jeff01 at email.unc.edu (Jeff Bollinger)
Subject: Credit card numbers

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Myers, Marvin wrote:
| Maybe it is only me, but does anyone else notice a big jump in the
| number of merchants that are printing the entire credit card number and
| expiration date on receipts?
| Over the past 6 months I have had to educate about a dozen local
| merchants about the possible abuse scenarios that exist with this type
| of information leakage. If there
| Is not already some sort of law governing this policy, there should be.
|
|
| Marvin R. Myers
|

This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but the
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act has some protections for consumer credit card
information:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:SN00900:|

Thanks,
Jeff

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Jeff Bollinger, CISSP
University of North Carolina
IT Security Analyst
105 Abernethy Hall
mailto: jeff @unc dot edu
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