{"id":306,"date":"2007-10-09T21:56:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T02:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merchantaccountblog.com\/archives\/306"},"modified":"2009-01-06T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T16:46:45","slug":"a-solution-for-pci-compliance-stop-storing-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/306\/a-solution-for-pci-compliance-stop-storing-data","title":{"rendered":"A solution for PCI compliance &#8211; Stop storing data&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer world magazine just published an article regarding the move for all businesses that accept credit cards to become PCI compliant. <\/p>\n<p>This article covers the basic fact that retail store owners are <strong>required<\/strong> to store receipts with full credit card numbers on them for 18 months <em>(they are in case you didn&#8217;t know!)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with the whole system which is clearly outlined in the article, is that if card numbers were never stored, there wouldn&#8217;t be any need for PCI compliance. Since they are required to be stored by Visa and MasterCard, the system simply perpetuates itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9040958&#038;pageNumber=3\">The full article &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer world magazine just published an article regarding the move for all businesses that accept credit cards to become PCI compliant. This article covers the basic fact that retail store owners are required to store receipts with full credit card numbers on them for 18 months (they are in case you didn&#8217;t know!). The problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}