Visa Orders Card Numbers Masked
from the good-idea-or-just-marketing-hype dept
theodp writes "In an effort to thwart financial identity theft, credit-card issuer Visa USA said Thursday that it will force merchants that take Visa payments to display only the last four digits of a card number on receipts." As the article points out, there were a number of reasons for doing this, including a similar plan by rival MasterCard, and the possibility of legislation that would require this anyway.
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