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freshwest

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1. it's not just the banks not wanting the chips in the cards. It's the RWNJs calling that Big Brother.
Tue Jan 21, 2014, 12:50 AM
Jan 2014

There is an entire industry of people who have sold people on the belief that such things are for mass survelliance and or the mark of the beast, on and on. States have passed laws against having the chips in state driver's licenses and IDs. And don't think the banks didn't get screwed on this deal, as whenever.

I've had trouble with fraud on my cards, I didn't pay, the bank had to eat it. All I had to do was show them research on the firm or correspondence to show that I was not the one who did it. I did not have one of those 'protect your credit or prevent card fraud' policies either. it's the law that they are on the hook.

Other than that, I think this is the same group that sent that data to Russia, no?

And they have sold it internationally to whoever bid on it, I guess. This is what stinks about electronic transactions, but with millions upon millions of them on any given day, it's out there online to be stolen. I don't know what the answer is, because even if they were chipped, not all vendors have equipment to inspect the transaction. It's a problem.

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