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Originally Posted by Barefoot
The embedded chip cards are commonplace in Canada. When a chip card is used, the user is then required to enter a four digit "private password" number.
I haven't seen any machines in The Villages that read chip cards. I'm curious, are embedded chip cards not used in Florida?
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They are all over Europe and have been for over a decade. They are more secure, but the American credit card companies won't spend the money to switch their cards over. There is one bank--I think it's Chase, but don't quote me--that started offering a chipped card last spring. But I haven't seen a chip reader in any of the states we've traveled through, which would be MI to the east coast, and south through FL. Maybe someone else has run across them?
Another practice common in Europe is that when you pay at a restaurant, they bring a portable scanner to your table and run the charge in front of you. Your cc never leaves your sight.