Card receipts in trash - stop printing numbers!!!
David Fraser has a post telling about a dumpster in BC that was full of credit card receipts with card numbers and names. They were intended to go to the shredder. Businesses must stop printing credit or debit card numbers and cardholder names on receipts - both the customer and their own copy. There is absolutely no need to do that - it breaches privacy laws - and increases the risk of fraud.
This is a pet peeve of mine, and of David Fraser. The Ontario Privacy Commissioner agrees - as evidenced by a letter she sent me a while back in response to a column I wrote. The credit card companies have policies that say they should not be printed.
So its beyond me why it still happens so often.