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It's worth noting that the merchant, bank, and credit card issuer can and do regularly sell that information off in de-identified form. Card networks especially
by alteria 7y ago
It's worth noting that the merchant, bank, and credit card issuer can and do regularly sell that information off in de-identified form. Card networks especially like monetizing the data since it's very powerful.
I can't find the page describing the program on Visa's website, but their privacy opt-out describes it pretty well [1].
[1] https://usa.visa.com/legal/privacy-policy-opt-out.html https://usa.visa.com/legal/privacy-policy-opt-out.html
- neuronic 7y agoYes but they'd do it every time you use your card anyways. So back to cash only? In the US you're screwed without using credit cards and in Europe I would not want to go back out of convenience. Carrying 800 grams of coins around me all the time sucks.