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Wal-Mart, Eyeing Mobile And Online, To Revamp Its Privacy Policy
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 No commentsOne month from now, Wal-Mart will unveil a radically changed privacy policy, one that envisions a merged channel world, where consumers are as likely to use their phone and laptop to interact with Wal-Mart as much as they would walk into a store or speak with a call center. The policy talks about data not merely from a PCI and a purchase history perspective, but also from a security camera’s and cellphone’s perspective.”Our goal is to have it be completely comprehensive, for both online and offline,” said Zoe Strickland, the Wal-Mart VP who serves as the chain’s Chief Privacy Officer
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Little-Used One-Time-Use Cards Might Have IT Payment Impact
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 No commentsA little discussed, rarely-used card offering from Bank of America and Citi—plus a few others—is something retail payments people should get to know.
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Tesco Embraces Open API Strategy For Mobile, 3D
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 No commentsTesco, Europe’s second-largest retailer, is counting on an army of outside programmers to create applications that will enable easy shopping on its Web site via mobile devices and other interfaces, following a similar move by Best Buy to release its APIs to the developer community. An official with the $85 billion Tesco, the world’s third-largest retailer behind Wal-Mart and France’s Carrefour, detailed the move this week in some Web and blob entries.”Our customers tell us that to differentiate ourselves we must be proactive, we must inspire them and we must make grocery shopping easier and faster,” wrote Nick Lansley, Tesco’s head of research and development. “Perhaps this new immersive experience needs to be a great mobile phone application or perhaps a 3D virtual store or shopping through the TV set-top box or a third party recipe site where ingredients can be added straight to your basket.”
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Nothing New In “New” PCI Wireless Guidelines
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 No commentsRetailers fearful of having cardholder data swiped from their wireless networks won’t, unfortunately, find any new and magical cures within the new guideline published by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) July 16. Indeed, the document’s authors concede they didn’t come up with any requirements that weren’t already included in the existing PCI standards
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Clarifying, Somewhat, The PCI Wireless Security Standards
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 No commentsThe new PCI wireless guidelines are helpful, but it could have—should have—gone a few steps farther, opines PCI Columnist David Taylor. For example, one of the technical controls that was introduced with PCI DSS 1.2 is the wireless IDS/IPS.
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“What’s an Acquirer?” And Other Noteworthy SME Questions
Posted on July 15th, 2009 No commentsSmall business owners may be too ignorant to ever be PCI compliant. PCI Columnist David Taylor recently participated in a webinar, a live seminar and a survey all aimed at small business, and all part of separate efforts aimed at building awareness about the importance of PCI compliance to small to medium size enterprises (SMEs). In each case, the presenters were struggling, trying to figure out just how “basic” to be when explaining PCI compliance.Pretty darn basic, actually.
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Mercury Offers $40K Compensation For Its Breached Retailers
Posted on July 14th, 2009 No commentsFollowing word of a “if breached, we’ll cover some of your costs” program from Heartland, fellow payment processor Mercury Payment Systems has launched its own program, one featuring $40,000 of reimbursement from any of its retail customers that are breached. Mercury officials stress that it’s far from a reaction to Heartland, as Mercury started its program in late June and Heartland is only promising it for later this year.The Mercury program is limited to retailers who “have successfully completed their SAQ and quarterly scans and remedied any highlighted issues,” said Kim Mackay, Mercury’s VP of marketing. “This is as much as 15K towards a 3rd party forensic audit and as much as 25K toward fees and fines.
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