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Triana

(22,666 posts) Fri Oct 17, 2014, 05:01 PM Oct 2014

White House Issues Executive Order To Use Chip and Pin

The U.S. President today signed a new Executive Order directing the government to lead by example in securing transactions and sensitive data. Multiple initiatives are included. The most important is an example of the government leading by example to secure payments to and from the Federal government by applying chip and PIN technology to newly issued and existing government credit and debit cards.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/17/fact-sheet-safeguarding-consumers-financial-security