On: France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls

[epolanski]

You can't ask for this data over phone, you can't pay over phone.

[wpietri → epolanski]

I obviously can. I can call anybody and ask them for all sorts of stuff. I'm asking what, in your proposed world, would stop me.

[everforward → wpietri]

I’m not endorsing the idea, but we could ban printing the card number on the card. New cards would only have a CVV, chip, mag strip and some way to differentiate between 2 cards from the same company (a colored dot?).

The info would still be on the mag strip, but the vast majority of people would be unable to pay over the phone anymore. Or the internet.