Target Stores Credit Card Breach

by Steve Meyer (February 4, 2014) Constitutional Alliance Stop Real ID Coalition

The Target data breach made the news once again today. Over the noon hour while watching the local CBS affiliate, KCCI TV8, one news story drew me to cease all I was doing and respond. CBS perhaps is not so much to blame for anything more than allowing this lunacy to make the televised news.

The story presented an individual who proclaimed that chipping Target's credit cards would have prevented the data breach which occurred while swiping the magnetic credit card strip. He went on to say that chips have been used successfully in Europe, for years. The claim then went to the high cost of putting the chip into the card as the reason why it hasn't been implemented here.

A Target/Bank spokesperson discounted this man's claims stating that the data breach would not have been prevented with a chipped Target credit card. The Constitutional Alliance has been educating Senators, Congressmen, Governors, attorneys, talk show hosts, pastors, and the public about identity security. Some don't get it, but the facts are really fairly simple. The need to explain the ID (identity) schema brought forth the following visual:

Hopefully, this visual clarifies the listed ID options that many have come to recognize as potential identification methods Further, one should notice that one can readily change out their credit card ID for a new one while it is far more difficult to replace tattoos and facial features (try the retinal scan … for example).

To be clear on this topic: keep the magnetic strip and definately avoid the more risky and dangerous schemes such as facial recognition.