> Credit card companies have no business in knowing what their customers are buying. The US Treasury says otherwise: this seems to all have started from them t

> Credit card companies have no business in knowing what their customers are buying. The US Treasury says otherwise: this seems to all have started from them trying to blame Visa/MC for "directly handling the proceeds of these illicit transactions", despite the payment processors not having any idea what was actually being purchased. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-whistleblower-says-mastercard-visa-failed-stop-payments-child-sex-abuse-2025-01-24/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-whistleblower-says-maste...