Legal Planet » Business Law http://legalplanet.com Legal News & Information from around the planet Fri, 24 May 2013 16:30:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Calif. court: Merchants can’t ask patrons for ZIPs http://legalplanet.com/2011/02/10/calif-court-merchants-cant-ask-patrons-for-zips http://legalplanet.com/2011/02/10/calif-court-merchants-cant-ask-patrons-for-zips#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:48:13 +0000 legalplanet http://legalplanet.com/?p=1833 The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that merchants can no longer ask for the ZIP codes of customers who make purchases with credit cards because such requests violate a state consumer-protection law.

The high court’s unanimous decision, which says a ZIP code can be used as “personal identification information,” overturned two…[READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE]

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