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Facts on FACTA - How Are You Protected?
Congress approved FACTA on December 4, 2003, also known as the Fair & Accurate Credit Transactions Act.It took until December of 2006 for FACTA to become fully effective. The purpose of FACTA is to reduce the amount of personal confidential financial information that is generated and thereby reduce the incidence of identity theft, credit card fraud, and debit card fraud. To help accomplish this goal, 15 USC 1681c(g)(1) requires that merchants that issue receipts to individuals truncate all but the last four or five digits of the customer’s credit card or debit card account number and truncate the entire expiration date.
Much confusion resulted from FACTA, and the Act was effectively ignored by some merchants, despite the fact that the Act was widely discussed and publicized before and after its enactment.Because there were so many lawsuits over FACTA’s “no printing of expiration date” clause, Congree decided to pass an act to protect merchants who didn’t follow that element of the law. › Continue reading
