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Apple requiring credit cards for iPhones, limiting to 2 per person

by @ 19:57 on November 3, 2007. Filed under Business.

(H/T – Bryan/Hot Air)

David Berlind, Executive Editor of ZDNet, figured out why Apple is requiring a credit card to purchase an iPhone. It is to track you to try and ensure you don’t try to purchase 3 of them.

Sounds like a noble goal, right? Slight problem with using credit card information for that purpose; it may well put Apple in breach of the voluntary credit-card-system security and privacy standard (PCI DSS), agreements with card issuers and credit card companies, and various privacy laws. Oops.

Between that, the iPod video-out controversy (highlighted by Pete Fanning), and the general stiffing of anybody who comes up with a better product for Apple technology than Jobs and company, there’s a reason why I haven’t bought anything from Apple in, oh, 2 decades.

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