Consumer Law

Jeff Gelles on "Click and Trick"

By Jeff Sovern

Here and here. The practice, sometimes called "data pass," refers to a transaction in which a consumer deliberately purchases something on the web and then agrees to a second transaction without realizing it because the consumer's credit card information is provided directly to the second company without the consumer supplying it again.  Visa has agreed to stop participating in such transactions, and Senator Jay Rockefeller plans to propose legislation to bar the practice.

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on April 29, 2010 (boomark / email).