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Court Rules Credit Card Customers Can Zip Their Lips About Home Zip Codes

Posted by Bo Links - March 12, 2011


We’ve all been there.  Waiting in line to pay and get out of the store, sliding our credit card through a machine, when a clerk at the cash registers asks us for our home zip code.  What if we refuse?

Well, we have a right to refuse. The California Supreme Court has held that a person’s zip code is “personal identification information” and that businesses cannot require a credi


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Pineda v. Williams Sonoma (Zip code privacy).DOC

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