"Bill" wrote in message
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I'm asking here because people here know everything, and an online search
hasn't produced a clear answer.

My wife paid by credit card in a small local shop.

She looked at the receipt when she got home and noticed that it said
Merchant Copy and had the full credit card number, plus start and end
date. I don't believe it had the security number from the back or, of
course, her Pin number.
She became alarmed (nothing new) and expected me to know whether the
business could be trusted not to spend all her money using phone payments.
She says the owner is a nice man.

It looks as though this may be fairly normal to allow businesses to make
refunds, provided the receipts are held securely under lock and key and
destroyed securely after a certain, unspecified, time.

Does anyone know whether the law in the UK is specific about holding the
unencrypted, printed data locally, and whether there is any financial
danger.

If it was a paky corner shop look out for ten and twenty pound phone top ups
appearing on your bill.......never trust a Muslim because you are the
infidel and are there to be exploited......