California high court: Retailers can’t request cardholders’ ZIP code – CNN.com

California high court: Retailers can’t request cardholders’ ZIP code

By Greg Botelho, CNN, February 10, 2011 9:43 p.m. EST

(CNN) — California’s high court ruled Thursday that retailers don’t have the right to ask customers for their ZIP code while completing credit card transactions, saying that doing so violates a cardholders’ right to protect his or her personal information. Many retailers in California and nationwide now ask people to give their ZIP code, punching in that information and recording it. Yet California Supreme Court’s seven justices unanimously determined that this practice goes too far. …

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