Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack

Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by dagw on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:06AM (#15661200)

Everyone I know in Europe with a “real”credit card just has an Amex.

Lived in Sweden for the past 12 years, and never seen anybody us an Amex card (seen lots of ads for Amex though). Mastercard seems to own basically the entire credit card market here.

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Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by r3bl on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:53AM (#15663391)

Does it really matter if it's MasterCard or Visa?

In my country (Bosnia), there's pretty much no difference between them. Maybe half a euro more per month for one or the other. All the banks I know of let you pick between them. Citizens usually pick randomly. They're accepted the same, you still have to chase your own bank's ATMs to avoid unnecessary fees etc.

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Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by dagw on Thursday November 09, 2017 @11:07AM (#15663511)

Makes no difference to the end user. My bank recently switched it's debit card from Visa to MC and it changed nothing for me.

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