Slip Showing? Federal Law Requires All Businesses to Truncate Credit Card Information on Receipts

Citation
Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection, '''Slip Showing? Federal Law Requires All Businesses to Truncate Credit Card Information on Receipts''' (May 2007) (full-text).

Overview
According to the federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA), the electronically printed credit and debit card receipts a business gives its customers must shorten — or truncate — the account information. It may include no more than the last five digits of the card number, and it must delete the card's expiration date.