(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.
There’s grumbling now about the security of Leopard, their latest OS too….