Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Visa collects Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information
Visa says it collects U.S. Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information as part of its ordinary business. The statement does not say whose information this is (for example cardholders, customers of a company that issues Visa cards, or Visa's own workers), why or how it is collected, or what else counts as "sensitive personal information". The statement is Visa's own and does not mention Chime.
Details
- Who
- Visa
- What it does
- collects
- What it covers
- U.S. Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information
- Condition
- in the ordinary course of its business
- Where
- United States (U.S. Social Security numbers)
Supporting quotations
Visa collects U.S. Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information in the ordinary course of its business.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Social Security numbers are U.S. Social Security numbers
- Collected in the ordinary course of Visa's business
Not stated here
- Whose information Visa collects (cardholders, customers of card issuers such as Chime, workers or others) is not stated
- The purposes and methods of collection are not stated
- "Sensitive personal information" is not defined beyond Social Security numbers
- The statement does not say how it relates to Chime or to Chime's own handling of this information