[privacy] IKEA prints SSN and entire credit card number to receipts

[Juha-Matti Laurio]

I can only say what is the policy in Nordic countries. We will receive a cash receipt which includes the ID of cashier, cash machine and the last five numbers of the credit card.

- Juha-Matti

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu kirjoitti: 
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:59:08 +0200, Juha-Matti Laurio said:
> > The furniture retailer IKEA prints the entire credit card number and social
> >  security number of its IKEA Card customers to cash receipts.
> 
> Excuse me while I put my brain back together - I'm failing to see how
> a *cash* receipt needs anything other than "goods and services sold", "tax",
> "total", "cash tendered" and "change returned" numbers, preferably expressed in
> either locally accepted currency or the currency actually transacted (i.e. if
> local coinage is pesos but I paid in euros, pesos or equivalent euros are OK,
> but no fair expressing it in yen and screwing me over for 0.5% in currency
> arbitrage. ;)
> 
> Unless my interpretation of "cash receipt" is different than on Juha-Matti's
> side of that big puddle?