Traduction de «magnetic card » (Anglais → Français) :

When I go to a restaurant and give my card to the waiter or waitress, who takes an imprint of it or puts it through the magnetic tape reader to forward my bill to my credit card supplier, for a moment that person has my credit card number at hand and could very easily take it down and misuse it later.

12. Stresses the importance of clear rules on consumer protection policies at European level; believes that further standardisation at European level is needed, in the form of a regulatory framework establishing security standards and transparency of costs for each form of electronic payment (also extending to non-banking service providers) and regulating all the actors involved in the provision of payment services as well as all intermediaries, including merchants (e.g. storage of credentials); believes that when defining standards it is necessary to take account of those systems which have brought about significant shifts towards safer payments (e.g. the CHIPPIN system for cards ...[+++]; two-factor authentication systems; e-signatures and online payments passing through e-payment services), of those systems which are more vulnerable to fraud (e.g. where consumers’ sensitive personal data are transmitted to third parties, as in online payments through overlay services, or the magnetic strip system for cards), and of innovations that could make the processes safer;

As the bells sound, for 15 or 30 minutes, we come along with our magnetic cards, our vote is taken, we return to our seats for the result.

He spoke of electronic voting, and of voting stations that use a magnetic card.

Credit-card crime ranges over a broad spectrum, from abusive use of stolen cards, altering the data embossed on the face of a card, altering the electronic data stored on the magnetic strip, using so-called 'white plastics' in collaboration with criminal traders to imitate the functions of a credit card, to counterfeiting complete cards.

To this end, the Commission plans to cooperate with banking institutions, organizations and authorities in order: - to promote consistency in the application of existing standards for magnetic-stripe cards; - determine the procedures for hybrid cards (magnetic stripe + microchip) as well as prepare the coexistance of types and for systematic access to cash dispensers for all types; - in conjunction with the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), determine the procedures for interconnecting netwo ...[+++]rks, and - examine the problems arising from (a) the use of the ECU and (b) charges for services supplied.