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COVID-19 Sees More Online Grocers Accept EBT SNAP Payments For Food

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Online grocers are increasingly allowing underprivileged consumers to use EBT payments (the modern equivalent of food stamps) at a time when the pandemic has made going to the store too risky for many shoppers. The move by the two companies is just the latest initiative in a growing trend of EBT acceptance for online grocery shoppers.

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daVinci Payments Launches CNY Funded Prepaid Cards

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Illinois-based daVinci Payments has announced it is releasing a Chinese Yuan (CNY) corporate-funded prepaid card for employees or customers of multi-national corporations. The company has partnered with UnionPay to provide virtual and physical cards that will be accepted at point-of-sale terminals in China.

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Google Pay Now Supports Cards From 13 More US States

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Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, Google Pay has rolled out mobile support for cards from 13 U.S. Services like Google Pay must come to an agreement with a credit union or bank before they can support a consumer’s debit or credit card, 9to5Google reported.

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NY Man Gets Jail Time For $390K Card Skimming Scheme

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A New York man, 39-year-old Bogdan Rusu, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on charges of using credit card skimming tactics to steal $390,141 from various New Jersey banks, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) report. From there, they used the information to steal customers’ money from their accounts.

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Mega Millions Winning Ticket Could Come Via Payment Card Tonight

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Payment cards could play a role in making somebody, or a group of people, insanely wealthy tonight via the $1.6 According to reports, 32 states allow consumers to use at least some combination of credit, debit and gift card to buy tickets for that lottery. billion Mega Millions drawing scheduled for 11 p.m. ET Tuesday night (Oct.

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Ballard Spahr partner, Phil Yannella, authors book on data breach and privacy litigation

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Much of the new litigation is driven by statutes, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), and state wiretap laws that provide for statutory damages. At the current pace, over 1200 data breach or privacy lawsuits, most of them class actions, will be filed this year.

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Why State And Local Governments Struggle To Shred The Paper Check

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The state of Illinois is still considering digital disbursements, though innovation remains slow. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is allowing residents to schedule and receive reoccurring payments to their credit or debit cards in a bid to simplify the child support payment process.

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