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Legislation has been passed that will finally give a regulator the power to crack down on companies slugging consumers with surcharges 1,000 per cent above the cost of processing credit card payments.
If you’re a fan of discovering new anxieties that you didn’t even know you had, then consumer group Which? has some good news: It turns out that the contactless payment card in your pocket might not be as secure as you assumed.
Credit card companies often strip your details from their records and then share it with third parties, claiming that it’s anonymised. But a new study from MIT reveals that analysis of just four purchases made on your card can identify you with more than 90 per cent accuracy, even when…
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