Retailers Fighting To No Longer Store Credit Data

Technical Writing Geek writes with the news that the retail industry is getting mighty fed up over credit card company policies requiring them to store payment data. The National Retail Federation (NRF) has gone to bat for store owners, asking the credit industry to change their policies. The frustration stems from payment card industry (PCI) standards and new security measures going into place across the retail experience. Retailers are now trying to point out that many of the elements of the standard would not be a requirement if they didn't have to store so much payment data. "Even if the NRF's demands were immediately met, it would take several years before retailers could purge their systems and applications of credit card data, he said. Over the years, retailers have collected and stored credit card data in myriad systems and places -- including relatively old legacy environments -- and they are just now realizing the data can be a challenge, he said. Purging it can be a bigger headache because the data is often inextricably linked to and used by a variety of customer and marketing applications; simply removing it could cause huge disruptions."

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Six letters for this. B O O H O O

[Chas]

I say "tough".

PCI has been coming for a while now.

Why are these people "only now" realizing what this entails?

Oh yeah. Because they ignored it until they couldn't ignore it anymore.

Now they're bitching about how HARD it's going to be to implement or retrofit?

Boo fucking hoo.

They had the opportunity to ammortize the cost out over a longer period of time. Now they get bit because they tripped over a dollar to save a dime.

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[heffrey]

Seriously the story title is exceedingly hard to understand (and I am actually English!) so why is my comment flamebait? Oh that's right, the first rule of Slashdot is nobody criticises Slashdot...